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Laos Transnational Issues
Laos Transnational Issues: A summary of information about Laos Transnational Issues, from government research data as well as independent research and other sources.
Laos: Transnational Issues
Disputes - international
parts of the border with Thailand are indefinite
Illicit drugs
world's third-largest illicit opium producer (estimated cultivation in 1999 - 21,800 hectares, a 16% decrease over 1998; estimated potential production in 1999 - 140 metric tons, about the same as in 1998); potential heroin producer; transshipment point for heroin and methamphetamines produced in Burma; illicit producer of cannabis
