This was the last week in office of UN Special Representative of the Secretary General in Kosovo, Soren Jessen -Petersen, who announced he would resign from his functions on June 12th (cf. D-Welle, 14.6.2006) and had his last official appearance on June 20th when he reported to the UN Security Council about the situation in Kosovo. In his speech (pdf), he underlined the progress Kosovo has made: "I hold that, after seven years of (UN) interim administration in Kosovo, society is ready - indeed impatient - to move on, and that in fact it would be a far greater risk to keep Kosovo in limbo for much longer."

As of today, Finland replaces Austria as "EU President". According to the EU Observer, one of the main achievements of the Austrian presidency was to keep "the EU's eye focussed on the Western Balkans as future members of the bloc", e.g. by making enlargement the main topic in Salzburg in March (cf. this blog, 12.3.2006 and 13.3.2006).