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Introduction - Azerbaijan: | Location - Azerbaijan: | People - Azerbaijan: | Government - Azerbaijan: | Economy - Azerbaijan: | Communications - Azerbaijan: | Transportation - Azerbaijan: | Military - Azerbaijan: | Military branches | Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces | | Military service age and obligation | men between 18 and 35 are liable for military service; 18 years of age for voluntary military service; length of military service is 18 months and 12 months for university graduates (2006) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 1,961,973
females age 18-49: 2,033,186 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 1,314,955
females age 18-49: 1,676,408 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 82,358
females age 18-49: 78,067 (2005 est.) | | Refugees and internally displaced persons | refugees (country of origin): 2,800 (Russia)
IDPs: 580,000-690,000 (conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh) (2006) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 2.6% (2005 est.) | | Disputes international | Armenia supports ethnic Armenian secessionists in Nagorno-Karabakh and since the early 1990s has militarily occupied 16% of Azerbaijan; over 800,000 mostly ethnic Azerbaijanis were driven from the occupied lands and Armenia; about 230,000 ethnic Armenians were driven from their homes in Azerbaijan into Armenia; Azerbaijan seeks transit route through Armenia to connect to Naxcivan exclave; Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continues to mediate dispute; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia have ratified Caspian seabed delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on an even one-fifth allocation and challenges Azerbaijans hydrocarbon exploration in disputed waters; bilateral talks continue with Turkmenistan on dividing the seabed and contested oilfields in the middle of the Caspian; Azerbaijan and Georgia continue to discuss the alignment of their boundary at certain crossing areas | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |