Suriname:
Military & Transnational Issues


Military branches	National Army (Nationaal Leger, NL; includes Naval Wing, Air Wing) (2007)
Military service age and obligation	18 years of age (est.); no conscription
Manpower available for military service	males age 18-49: 111,582 females age 18-49: 103,769 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service	males age 18-49: 77,793 females age 18-49: 72,943 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP	0.6% (2006 est.)

Disputes - international	area claimed by French Guiana between Riviere Litani and Riviere Marouini (both headwaters of the Lawa); Suriname claims a triangle of land between the New and Kutari/Koetari rivers in a historic dispute over the headwaters of the Courantyne; Guyana seeks United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) arbitration to resolve the long-standing dispute with Suriname over the axis of the territorial sea boundary in potentially oil-rich waters
Illicit drugs	growing transshipment point for South American drugs destined for Europe via the Netherlands and Brazil; transshipment point for arms-for-drugs dealing