une 2004,
implementation has been delayed; environmentalists in Burma and
Thailand remain concerned about China's construction of
hydroelectric dams upstream on the Nujiang/Salween River in Yunnan
Province

Christmas Island
none

Clipperton Island
none

Cocos (Keeling) Islands
none

Colombia
Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and
against Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over disputed maritime boundary
involving 50,000 sq km in the Caribbean Sea, including the
Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank;
dispute with Venezuela over maritime boundary and Los Monjes Islands
near the Gulf of Venezuela; Colombian-organized illegal narcotics,
guerrilla, and paramilitary activities penetrate all of its
neighbors' borders and have created a serious refugee crisis with
over 300,000 persons having fled the country, mostly into
neighboring states

Comoros
claims French-administered Mayotte

Congo, Democratic Republic of the
heads of the Great Lakes states
and UN pledge to end conflict but unchecked tribal, rebel, and
militia fighting continues unabated in the northeastern region of
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drawing in the neighboring
states of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda; the UN Organization Mission in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) has maintained over
14,000 peacekeepers in the region since 1999; thousands of Ituri
refugees from the Congo continue to flee the fighting primarily into
Uganda; 90,000 Angolan refugees were repatriated by 2004 with the
remainder in the DRC expected to return in 2005; in 2005, DRC and
Rwanda established a border verification mechanism to address
accusations of Rwandan military supporting Congolese rebels and the
DRC providing rebel Rwandan "Interhamwe" forces the means and bases
to attack Rwandan forces; the location of the boundary in the broad
Congo River with the Republic of the Congo is indefinite except in
the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area

Congo, Republic of the
about 7,000 Congolese refugees fleeing
internal civil conflicts since the mid-1990s still reside in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo; the location of the boundary in
the broad Congo River with the Democratic Republic of the Congo is
indefinite except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area

Cook Islands
none

Coral Sea Islands
none

Costa Rica
in September 2005, Costa Rica took it