total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Heliports:

1 (2007)

Railways:

total: 250 km
standard gauge: 250 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified 169 km) (2006)

Roadways:

total: 7,368 km
paved: 4,742 km
unpaved: 2,626 km (2006)

Merchant marine:

total: 6
by type: cargo 5, passenger/cargo 1
registered in other countries: 3 (Bahamas 2, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Bar

Military
Montenegro

Military branches:

Armed Forces of the Republic of Montenegro: Army, Navy (serves as
Coast Guard), Air Force (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

compulsory national military service abolished August 2006

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 4,426
female: 4,201 (2008 est.)

Military - note:

Montenegrin plans call for the establishment of a fully professional
armed forces

Transnational Issues
Montenegro

Disputes - international:

none

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 7,000 (Kosovo); note - mostly ethnic
Serbs and Roma who fled Kosovo in 1999
IDPs: 16,192 (ethnic conflict in 1999 and riots in 2004) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Montenegro is primarily a transit country for the
trafficking of women and girls to Western Europe for the purpose of
commercial sexual exploitation; women and girls from the Balkans and
Eastern Europe are trafficked across Montenegro to Western European
countries
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Montenegro is on the Tier 2 Watch
List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to
combat trafficking in persons in 2007; public attention to the issue
of trafficking has diminished considerably in Montenegro in recent
years (2008)

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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@Montserrat

Introduction
Montserrat

Background:

English and Irish colonists from St. Kitts first settled on
Montserrat in 1632; the first African slaves arrived three decades
later. The British and French fought for possession of the island
for most of the 18th century, but it finally was confirmed as a
British possession in 1783. The island's sugar plantation economy
was converted to small farm landholdi