Foreign relations of the United States

International Dispute

• Maritime boundary disputes with Canada (Dixon Entrance[?], Beaufort Sea[?], Strait of Juan de Fuca, Machias Seal Island[?])
• US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease
• Haiti claims Navassa Island
• US has made no territorial claim in Antarctica (but has reserved the right to do so) and does not recognize the claims of any other nation
• Marshall Islands claims Wake Island.

Illicit drugs:

• consumer of cocaine shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean
• consumer of heroin, marijuana, and increasingly methamphetamines from Mexico
• consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin
• illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants[?], stimulants[?], hallucinogens, and methamphetamines
• drug-money-laundering center

Military Aid:

The United States provides military aid through many different channels. Counting the items that appear in the budget as 'Foreign Military Financing' and 'Plan Colombia[?]', the US spent approximately $4.5 billion in military aid in 2001, of which $2 billion went to Israel, $1.3 billion went to Egypt, and $1 billion went to Colombia.

External links:

• Introduction to US foreign aid (http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/aid/fy2002-intro.pdf)
• Foreign aid by country (http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/aid/fy2002part17.pdf)

See also : United States of America