Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Ahtisaari
Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari; born 23 June 1937) is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work...
NationalityFinnish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 June 1937
CityVyborg, Finland
CountryFinland
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Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
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With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.
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Religions themselves are... peace-loving. They can also be a constructive force in peace-building, and this also applies to the Middle East.
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Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
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My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I owe it to the Chinese that I explain what has happened in these talks that I have attended, ... This Week.
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I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.
It is clear a Palestinian state is needed.
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I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean that in all details we agree 100 percent.
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We have now come to the point when the clarity has to be sought from Yugoslavia,
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The mere fact that I'm former head of state and former under-secretary in the U.N. system, it means that I can get in touch with anybody in the world, in theory.
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The object of this first trip is to listen to the parties, collect impressions,
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It's an excellent choice ... for an organization that does extremely good work.
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As the talks are entering a sensitive phase, I appeal to all parties concerned to exercise utmost restraint on the ground.
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Considering what has taken place during the negotiations and in the execution of the agreement, it would be difficult not to describe this as a success.