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Bhutan Transnational Issues 2007

Disputes - international: over 100,000 Bhutanese Lhotshampas (Hindus) have been confined in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps since 1990; Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a boundary alignment to resolve substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lies in Bhutan's northwest

NOTE: The transnational issues information regarding Bhutan on this page is re-published from the 2007 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bhutan Transnational Issues 2007 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bhutan Transnational Issues 2007 should be addressed to the CIA.