President of Finland from 1994 to 2000
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A diplomat who made a career of walking into rooms where wars had frozen into stalemate and finding the door out—Namibia, Aceh, Kosovo—work that earned him the Nobel in 2008.
Martti Ahtisaari was born on 23 June 1937 and spent early diplomatic years as Finland's Ambassador to Tanzania from 1973 to 1977, then as United Nations Commissioner for Namibia through 1981. He served as president of Finland from 1994 to 2000, but his reputation rested on what came after: decades as a UN special envoy, brokering peace in places where talking had stopped. He led the Kosovo status negotiations that preceded the territory's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia. That October, the Nobel committee awarded him the Peace Prize for resolving conflicts across continents—Namibia…
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Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.
It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough.
During the next 10 years about 1.2 billion young 15-to-30-year-olds will be entering the job market and with the means now at our disposal about 300 million will get a job.
You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.
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