16 minutes agoMartinti Ahtisaari dies
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)Former leading UN mediator for resolving Kosovo's status and former Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, has died Monday at the age of 86. As the official website of the Finnish presidency has revealed, Ahtisaari died on Monday morning in Helsinki. Deep sorrow brought us news of President Martti Ahtisaari's death. [...]
Former leading UN mediator for resolving Kosovo's status and former Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, has died Monday at the age of 86.
As the official website of the Finnish presidency has revealed, Ahtisaari died on Monday morning in Helsinki.
Deep sorrow brought us news of President Martti Ahtisaari's death. Martti Ahtisaari believed in humans, civilisation and goodness, and he lived a wonderful, remarkable life. He was the president of the times of change, which led Finland to the EU's global era”, incumbent Finnish President Saul Niinistö has said.
The 84-year-old was Finland's tenth president, serving from 1994 to 2000, and the first to be elected through a two-stage direct popular vote compared to the previous electoral college system.
In 2008, he became the first Finnish to receive the Nobel Peace Prize “for his significant efforts, on several continents and more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts”, including Kosovo, Iraq, Namibia and Indonesia.
