June, 2007

• 28 June

  Rehn says SAA talks with Serbia can be completed by late September

  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.

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• 28 June

  BiH Defence Ministry takes over Orao military base from EUFOR

  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.

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• 28 June

  Turkish army urges parliament to order cross-border operation

  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.

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• 28 June

  UNMIK bars Serb paramilitaries from entering Kosovo

  KFOR escorted buses carrying hundreds of Serbs to Gazimestan Field near Pristina for commemorations Thursday (June 27th) of the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.

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• 28 June

  EC urges Bulgaria, Romania to curb corruption

  The European Commission (EC) warned Bulgaria and Romania on Wednesday (June 27th) that they must step up efforts in fighting corruption and crime to avoid future sanctions.

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• 28 June

  State given authority over Srebrenica memorial centre; Bosnian Serbs object

  In one of his final actions as the international community’s top envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), outgoing High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling put the state in charge of the Srebrenica-Potocari memorial centre, which commemorates Europe’s worst atrocity since World War II.

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• 28 June

  With “Kiro” vs “Jubito”, politics enters a new era

  Croatia’s Social Democrats called this month on the country’s interior minister to resign, charging that he broke laws in an effort to find out who has been posting video clips of his interviews and speeches on YouTube.

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• 28 June

  Iran: Protesters set ablaze 50 gas stations

  In protests against the Iranian regime, people in Tehran set ablaze many security forces vehicles, and government buildings, and at least 50 gas stations

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• 28 June

  US Officials: Iran training fighters in Iraq

  Iran is training fighters in Iraq and helping to plan attacks there despite diplomatic pressure for change, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, while violence around the Arab state killed at least 19 people.

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• 28 June

  Uprising in Tehran denounces Iranian regime’s fuel rationing

  Last night, and shortly after the Iranian regime announced the start of a fuel rationing program, residents in Tehran, Khuzestan, Gorgan, Azerbaijan, and elsewhere took to the streets in protest. 

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