Dignitaries bid farewell to former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, a Social Democrat and Nobel laureate who held the office through the end of the 1990s.
Dignitaries bid farewell to the late Martti Ahtisaari at a ceremony Friday in Finland s capital for the former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who helped facilitate peace deals in the countries of many of the mourners.
HELSINKI Martti Ahtisaari, the former president of Finland and global peace broker who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 for his work to resolve int
Martti Ahtisaari, the 10th President of Finland and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, died in Helsinki at the age of 86. The former Ambassador of Fin .
He helped reach peace accords related to Serbia's withdrawal from Kosovo in the late 1990s, Namibia’s bid for independence in the 1980s, and autonomy for Aceh province in Indonesia in 2005.