Thursday, March 10, 2011

Nobel Peaces Prize in 2008

MARTTI AHTISAARI

Martti Ahtisaari is a Finnish diplomat and politician. He was born on 23 June 1937 in Viipuri, Finland. Athisaari was a UN Special Envoy at the Kosovo status process negotiations, aimed at resolving a long-running dispute in Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008. In October 2088, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to delete and resolve international conflicts. The Nobel statement said that Ahtisaari has played a prominent role in resolving many conflicts in Namibia, Kosovo, Colombia and Iraq, among other areas. In 1994 he was elected President of Finland until 2000.

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