Disputes - international:
Serbia with several other states protest the US and other states' recognition of Kosovo's declaration of its status as a sovereign and independent state in February 2008; ethnic Serbian municipalities along Kosovo's northern border challenge final status of Kosovo-Serbia boundary; several thousand NATO-led Kosovo Force peacekeepers under UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo authority continue to keep the peace within Kosovo between the ethnic Albanian majority and the Serb minority in Kosovo; Serbia delimited about half of the boundary with Bosnia and Herzegovina, but sections along the Drina River remain in dispute
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin):
18,232 (Croatia), 8,270 (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (2018)
IDPs:
199,584 (most are Kosovar Serbs, some are Roma, Ashkalis, and Egyptian (RAE); some RAE IDPs are unregistered) (2019)
stateless persons:
2,052 (includes stateless persons in Kosovo) (2018)
note: 711,181 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-January 2020); Serbia is predominantly a transit country and hosts an estimated 3,404 migrants and asylum seekers as of the end of September 2019; 8,827 migrant arrivals in 2018
Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin moving to Western Europe on the Balkan route; economy vulnerable to money laundering
