EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn met with Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic on Wednesday (June 27th) and suggested that Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) talks with Serbia could be wrapped up and the accord initialled in September or October.

EUFOR handed over control of the Orao military base in Tuzla to the BiH Defence Ministry on Wednesday (June 27th), at a ceremony attended by EUFOR Rear Admiral Hans-Jochen Witthauer.

General Yasar Buyukanit, chief of the Turkish Army General Staff, called again on Wednesday (June 27th) for a cross-border operation against the terrorist organisation Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.