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Czech Republic Issues 1999
Disputesinternational: Liechtenstein claims restitution for 1,600 sq km of property in the Czech Republic confiscated from its royal family in 1918; the Czech Republic insists that restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the communists seized power; individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II; unresolved property issues with Slovakia over redistribution of former Czechoslovak federal property Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and hashish and Latin American cocaine to Western Europe; domestic consumptionespecially of locally produced synthetic drugson the rise Revised 1-Mar-99 Copyright © 1999 Photius Coutsoukis (all rights reserved) |