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Barbados - Transnational Issues
By CIA Factbook
Jun 4, 2008, 09:19
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Disputes - international:
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Barbados intends to take its claim before UNCLOS arbitration that the northern limit of Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with Venezuela extends into its waters; joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under UNCLOS, which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the Caribbean Sea
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Illicit drugs:
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one of many Caribbean transshipment points for narcotics bound for Europe and the US; offshore financial center
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