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	Crisis Management Initiative
		Ahtisaari was elected President of the Republic of Finland in February 1994.
		Ahtisaari joined the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 1965, holding various posts in the Ministry's Bureau for Technical cooperation from 1965 to 1972, and serving as Assistant Director from 1971 to 1972.
		Ahtisaari served as Ambassador of Finland to the United Republic of Tanzania (1973-1976) and was also accredited to Zambia, Somalia and Mozambique (1975-1976).
	www.ahtisaari.fi /?content=cv_board&id=1 (629 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (IPA: [ˈmɑrt:i ˈoivɑ ˈkɑleʋi ˈɑxtisɑ:ri]) (born June 23, 1937) is a former President of Finland (1994–2000) and a UN diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.
		Martti Ahtisaari was born in Viipuri (now Vyborg, Russia) while his father, Oiva, was a non-commissioned officer in the service corps.
		Martti Ahtisaari holds the rank of captain in the Finnish Army Reserve, though it is estimated that he could only be useful as cannon fodder during times of war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martti_Ahtisaari (1416 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari Biography
		Martti Ahtisaari (born June 23, 1937) was a UN diplomat and a President of Finland (1994 - 2000).
		Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari was born in Viipuri.
		Ahtisaari returned to the UN but in 1991 he was selected for the position of secretary of state in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Ahtisaari_Martti.html (526 words)

	IPS - International Board of Trustees / Martti Ahtisaari
		Martti Ahtisaari served as president of the Republic of Finland from Mar. 1, 1994 to Feb. 29, 2000.
		Ahtisaari took on the co-chairmanship of the New York-based EastWest Institute and the chairmanship of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group.
		Ahtisaari was during that period Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Finnish Industrialization Fund for developing countries.
	www.ips.org /about/profiles/martti_ahtisaari.shtml (528 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari - Former Presidnet of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ahtisaari served as Under-Secretary General for Administration and Management from 1987 to 1991 and in addition led operation UNTAG in Namibia (1989-1990).
		Ahtisaari was elected President of the Republic of Finland in 1994 and held office until 2000.
		Ahtisaari helped draft a report on the human rights and political situation in Austria as a member of the "three wise men" group.
	www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=399 (815 words)

	Fulbright Prize
		Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari was born on June 23, 1937, in the city of Viipuri.
		In 1977 Martti Ahtisaari became United Nations commissioner for Namibia and in 1978 was appointed special representative of the secretary-general for Namibia.
		President Ahtisaari assumed the position of secretary of state in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 1991.
	www.fulbrightalumni.org /olc/pub/FBA/fulbright_prize/ahtisarri_bio.html (542 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Northern Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Martti Ahtisaari helped broker the peace deal in Kosovo before turning his diplomatic and negotiating skills to Northern Ireland, where he was appointed an independent arms inspector to monitor IRA decommissioning in May 2000.
		Ahtisaari was appointed with Cyril Ramaphosa, former secretary-general of the African National Congress in South Africa.
		Ahtisaari, 63, was president of Finland from 1994 to 2000 and was European Union envoy to Kosovo during the crisis of 1999.
	edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/n.ireland/profiles/people/ahtisaari.html (181 words)

	Alliance for a New Kosovo: A Policy Resource on Kosovo Independence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Martti Ahtisaari, UN Special Envoy to the Kosovo status negotiations, said that the submission of his plan for the future of the process may be delayed after November if Serbia decides to hold elections in December.
		Ahtisaari noted the importance of the briefing "in light of a call from interested States for him to prepare a comprehensive proposal for a settlement and for all possible efforts to be made to achieve a negotiated settlement this year." Read the article here.
		Martti Ahtisaari, UN Special Envoy to the Kosovo status negotiations, has confirmed that he is organizing a meeting of top-level Kosovar and Serbian leaders in Vienna, which could start as early as 24 July.
	www.newkosovo.org /news.htm (9720 words)

	SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS FORMER PRESIDENT MARTTI AHTISAARI OF FINLAND AS SPECIAL ENVOY FOR FUTURE STATUS PROCESS FOR ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ahtisaari will lead the political process to determine the future status of Kosovo in the context of resolution 1244 (1999) and the relevant presidential statements of the Security Council.
		Ahtisaari served from 1984 to 1986 as Under-Secretary of State in charge of International Development Cooperation in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, as well as Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Namibia.
		Ahtisaari served as Special Adviser to the International Conference on the former Yugoslavia and to the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for former Yugoslavia.
	www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2005/sga955.doc.htm (752 words)

	Suomen Kuvalehti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ahtisaari receives a steady stream of requests for mediation even now, from governments and organizations, even from private citizens queuing up to ask Ahtisaari to help resolve issues in his homeland.
		Ahtisaari says that he was very sceptical when Farid Husain of the Indonesian government and managing director Juha Christensen first came to his doorstep in February 2004, requesting the former President’s assistance.
		Ahtisaari says he went in determined to decide only after that session whether he would be willing to continue as mediator.
	www.suomenkuvalehti.fi /?id=6437 (1464 words)

	Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari in Republic of Karelia
		Russian President Boris Yeltsin wolks with his Finnish counterpart, Martti Ahtisaari at the government resort of Shuiskaya Chupa in Karelia, a wild and picturesque area of lakes north of St. Petersburg that borders on Finland on Sunday, July 13, 1997.Yeltsin began his fishing vacation at Shuiskaya Chupa on Sunday.
		Russian President Boris Yeltsin deets his Finnish counterpart, Martti Ahtisaari and his wife Eeva at the government resort of Shuiskaya Chupa in Karelia, a wild and picturesque area of lakes north of St. Petersburg that borders on Finland on Saturday, July 12, 1997.Yeltsin began his fishing vacation at Shuiskaya Chupa on Sunday.
		Martti Ahtisaari said, that he would inform Yeltsin about Madrid Summit and he was very glad to come to Russia, because he prefered this climat much more.
	www.onego.ru /win/yeltsin/photos.html (754 words)

	Got conflict? Mr. Ahtisaari is your man. \| csmonitor.com
		Ahtisaari was their man. He shepherded Namibia to independence, inspected secret IRA arms dumps as part of the Northern Ireland peace process, and last year brokered a peace agreement between Indonesia and Aceh separatists.
		Ahtisaari, who speaks fluent English in a quiet, measured voice with a slight Scandinavian rasp, was born with one natural advantage for a mediator: He comes from the almost obsessively neutral country of Finland.
		Ahtisaari showed his predilection for informal settings again last year when he chose a small mansion outside Helsinki as the site for a series of negotiating sessions he chaired between the Indonesian government and leaders of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), which ended GAM's guerrilla war of independence with an agreement on autonomy.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0504/p01s04-wogi.html (1554 words)

	UN: Serbs aren't collectively guilty; they just have a bad national past
		After a request made by the Serbian government spokesman for the UN special envoy for Kosova [Kosovo] status talks, Martti Ahtisaari, to apologize to the entire Serbian nation over his recent statement, UNOSEK [UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo] officials said that there was no reason for Ahtisaari to apologize.
		Ahtisaari's spokeswoman Hua Jiang said that the UN Special envoy would not apologize for his statements because he was not talking about a collective guilt of the Serbian nation.
		The director of the Serbian government's press relations office, Srdjan Djuric, said that the UN special envoy for Kosovo talks, Martti Ahtisaari, instead of a loud and clear apology has a new grave accusation against Serbia, that it is sabre-rattling.
	emperors-clothes.com /yr/past.htm (566 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari - SourceWatch
		Martti Ahtisaari held the office of the President of the Republic of Finland from 1 March 1994 to 29 February 2000.
		Ahtisaari took on the Co-Chairmanship of the New York-based EastWest Institute and the Chairmanship of International Crisis Group (ICG).
		Ahtisaari was the Under-Secretary of State in charge of International Development Co-operation in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland from 1984 to 1986.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Martti_Ahtisaari&redirect=no (621 words)

	Fulbright Prize
		President Ahtisaari, a diplomat for over 30 years and president of Finland from 1994 to 2000, was honored for his work as peacemaker in some of the world’s most troubled areas.
		President Ahtisaari recalled his involvement in the Kosovo peace process, which began with a phone call from Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in May 1999.
		“Martti Ahtisaari has brought skill, patience, insight, and humaneness to some of the most intractable problems of our time,” said Donald F. McHenry, former ambassador and U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and a director of The Coca-Cola Company.
	www.fulbrightalumni.org /olc/pub/FBA/fulbright_prize/ahtisarri_pr.html (328 words)

	Serbia Info News / Talks to be resumed today
		Ahtisaari and Chernomyrdin, who arrived in Belgrade with their aides on Wednesday afternoon, briefed the leaders of Yugoslavia and of its republic of Serbia about proposed principles for ending the Yugoslav crisis.
		Belgrade, June 2 (Tanjug)- Special Russian presidential envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and European Union envoy, Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari stated on arriving in Belgrade from Bonn Wednesday that they had brought with them a plan which should initiate a process for a peaceful solution of the crisis effected by NATO aggression on Yugoslavia.
		Ahtisaari and Chernomyrdin told the press in their joint statement at Belgrade airport that it was a "historical moment for Yugoslavia".
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-06/03/12291.html (368 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari - Ex Presidente de Finlandia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ahtisaari fue subsecretario General para Administración y Gerencia (1987-1991) y estuvo a cargo de la operación de la UNTAG en Namibia (1989-1990).
		Ahtisaari también presidió un panel independiente sobre seguridad del personal de Naciones Unidas en Iraq, fue designado Enviado Especial de Naciones Unidas para el cuerno de África y Enviado Especial de la OSCE para Asia Central, y participó en una inspección del abandono de armas del IRA.
		Ahtisaari también es miembro de varias organizaciones culturales finlandesas.
	www.clubmadrid.org /cmadrid/index.php?id=389 (813 words)

	UN Says Kosovo Status Talks Off to Good Start
		Martti Ahtisaari, the United Nations chief negotiator for the future status of the Serbian province of Kosovo, says the technical talks between Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority are off to a good start.
		In a briefing for reporters, Ahtisaari said it is important that the talks move fast in the initial stages.
		Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland and veteran international negotiator, left no doubt that the talks will become more difficult as time passes.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2006-02/2006-02-28-voa76.cfm (507 words)

	Carl Savich » Blog Archive » Martti Ahtisaari: “Historical responsibility”
		Martti Ahtisaari, the Finnish chairman of the International Crisis Group (ICG), the globalist New World Order “think tank”, set off a storm of controversy by his racist statement that Serbia was “guilty as a nation” and bore “historical responsibility” for the Kosovo crisis.
		Ahtisaari’s comments are not only racist and bigoted, but they cover up his own nation’s “historical responsibility” for the Holocaust.
		Ahtisaari’s father was a “military mechanic” in the Nazi Finnish troops that attacked the USSR in 1941.
	serbianna.com /blogs/savich/?p=5 (906 words)

	UNITAR HOAP, Hiroshima Office for Asia and the Pacific
		Martti Ahtisaari is a former President of the Republic of Finland (1994-2000).
		Between 1965 and 1972, Mr Ahtisaari held various posts in the Bureau for Technical Co-operation of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and as Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania.
		Mr Ahtisaari is founder and chairman of Crisis Management Initiative, a Finnish NGO.
	www.unitar.org /hiroshima/c7/os_martti_ahtisaari.asp (1612 words)

	Serbs Criticize U.N. Mediator, Further Bogging Down Kosovo Talks - New York Times
		Ahtisaari’s remarks, made during negotiations in Vienna, were interpreted by the Serbian negotiating team as a suggestion that the Serbian nation was guilty for crimes committed during the Milosevic era, despite statements to the contrary by Mr.
		Ahtisaari’s remarks were made on Aug. 8 during a round of negotiations in Vienna, but they appear to have had a delayed impact.
		Ahtisaari sought to clarify his comments, saying that the current government in Belgrade could not be held responsible for the actions of the Milosevic government, but that it had to come to terms with its record.
	travel2.nytimes.com /2006/09/02/world/europe/02kosovo.html (824 words)

	Martti Ahtisaari - Images and Biography
		The first-directly elected President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, was born in a small Finnish town.
		Ahtisaari was only eight years old when World War II came to an end and his town of Viipuri came under Russian control.
		Ahtisaari’s father, a naturalized Finnish citizen of Norwegian background, was a non-commissioned army officer and Ahtisaari was more or less expected to follow suit with a career in the military; he instead opted instead to follow a career in education.
	www.kevo.com /profile/marttiahtisaari (285 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Possible Peace -- June 3, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Explosions could be heard in the background as Ahtisaari met with reporters after his first meeting with Milosevic.
		PRESIDENT MARTTI AHTISAARI: I presented, when we met last night, the document, which is two pages long, and read it through.
		PRESIDENT MARTTI AHTISAARI: First of all, you have to perhaps know that most of the people, at least half of the people on the other side of the table are people with whom I had been dealing when I was the chairman of the Bosnia Herzegovina working group.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june99/possible_peace_6.3.html (1839 words)

	ERPKIM Archive \| Martti Ahtisaari in Belgrade, March 01, 2006
		Kostunica briefed Ahtisaari on the Report of the work of the Serbian negotiating team, adopted by Serbian parliament yesterday, and said he expects that the talks on decentralisation and other important issues will lead to direct talks on the province's future status.
		Ahtisaari told the Serbian president that his statement for the "Spiegel" was not accurately passed on.
		Ahtisaari agreed with TadicÂ’s stance according to which statements from official should not imply over a solution for future status of Kosovo and Metohija.
	www.kosovo.net /news/archive/2006/March_01/2.html (1714 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Martti Ahtisaari: Trusted diplomat
		Martti Ahtisaari has earned a worldwide reputation as a diplomat able to handle the thorniest of problems.
		Mr Ahtisaari is considered to have been instrumental in bringing an end to the conflict in Kosovo in June 1999 after he was sent by the European Union as a mediator.
		Mr Ahtisaari's peace mission to Belgrade with Moscow's special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin resulted in Belgrade's acceptance of a peace plan to end the Kosovo conflict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1944663.stm (309 words)

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