“Ahtisaari helped Kosovo's independence influenced by its past as refugee”

In the book “Intermediator”, two Finnish authors confess to the career of Martti Ahtisaari, the mediator of the first talks between Kosovo and Belgrade that led to Kosovo independence. “The book discusses the Finnish diplomat's long and successful diplomatic career, which won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2009 for his contribution to the conflict of Namibia, Kosovo, Indonesia and Iraq.

From the beginning, Ahtisaari had drafted the topics to be talked about, unlike the new tour of negotiations that the end is still unknown. He even claims in the book that he openly presented his stand for those negotiations, which should end with Kosovo's independence. It is imperative for an mediator to express his attitude openly so that he does not become a hypocrite by hiding it, thus causing unnecessary implications. That stance had been scandalised at the time, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica. Ahtisaari had also initiated the creation of a team of unity in Kosovo in order to avoid internal problems regarding agreements to be achieved. In the new negotiations that follow today, another route was pursued, where only leaders or ruling parties officials negotiated, thus producing numerous domestic problems. Kosovo is now in an internal conflict that does not seem like the solution to the issue of Association, and not only. In fact, the idea of creating a new unity team to negotiate for Kosovo has recently been dropped. That, however, seems impossible the cause of increasing divisions among political parties in the country.

The book in question also speaks of one side of subjective former diplomat and former Finnish president. Being the war refugees themselves during the World War II period, he has been criticised for having had a hostile attitude towards Russia because of subjective causes. In the book, he admits that his child had appeared to him until he visited Blace, just months after the Kosovo war.

These are discovered in an authorial writing of Agron Demit, for the Time portal.