The Nobel statement said that Ahtisaari has played a prominent role in resolving many conflicts in Namibia ; Aceh, Indonesia ; Kosovo and Iraq, among other areas.

The couple has one son, Marko Ahtisaari, a noted musician and producer.

Ahtisaari denied both allegations and no firm proof of them has emerged.

In Finnish politics, Ahtisaari has stressed how important it is for Finland to join NATO.

Since leaving office, Ahtisaari has held positions in various international organizations.

Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".

In November 2008, Serbian media reported Pierre Mirel, director of the EU enlargement commission's western Balkans division as saying: " The EU has accepted that the deployment of EULEX has to be approved by the United Nations Security Council, and that the mission has to be neutral and will not be related to the Ahtisaari plan ," Mirel said, following his meeting with Serbia's vice-president Bozidar Djelic.

Since 2009, Ahtisaari has been Chairman Emeritus and a Special Advisor.

After the initial outflow after the Kosovo War the situation of the Kosovan Serb communities has improved and under the Ahtisaari plan minority rights have been promoted.

The person most conspicuously not appearing on the list is the international diplomat and former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, who has been a perennial favourite in Finland for the Nobel Peace Prize, and was finally awarded it in 2008.

It has offices in Berlin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sofia and Warsaw and a council chaired by Martti Ahtisaari, Joschka Fischer and Mabel van Oranje.

PON has recognized a diverse cast of distinguished negotiators from their respective fields: Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former President of Finland ( 2010 ); Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created “ The Gates ” in Central Park ( 2008 ); Bruce Wasserstein, Chairman and CEO of Lazard, an international financial advisory and asset management firm ( 2007 ); Sadako Ogata, former United Nations high commissioner for refugees ( 2005 ); Richard Holbrooke, former United States ambassador to the United Nations ( 2004 ); Stuart Eizenstat, former U. S. ambassador to the European Union ( 2003 ); Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations ’ special envoy for Afghanistan ( 2002 ); Charlene Barshefsky, U. S. trade representative in the second Clinton administration ( 2001 ); and former U. S. Senator George Mitchell for his work in Northern Ireland ( 2000 ).

President Martti Ahtisaari and the coalition governments led Finland closer to the core EU in the late 1990s.

* June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland

UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, leads the status process with Austrian diplomat Albert Rohan, his deputy.

Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari (; born 23 June 1937 ) is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland ( 1994 – 2000 ), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.

Martti Ahtisaari was born in Viipuri, Finland ( now Vyborg, Russia ).

His father, Oiva Ahtisaari ( whose grandfather Julius Marenius Adolfsen had emigrated with his parents to Finland in 1872 from Tistedalen in Southern Norway ) took Finnish citizenship in 1929 and changed his surname from Adolfsen in 1937.

Ahtisaari spent several years as a diplomatic representative from Finland.

Holkeri was awarded the highest Finnish honorary title of Valtioneuvos ( Counselor of State ) in 1998 by the President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari.

* Martti Ahtisaari, M. Sc., former President of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ( 2008 )

* Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland ( 1994 – 2000 ), 2008 Nobel Peace Prize winner, AUBG Doctor of Humane Letters ( 2005 )

In 2000, Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South African political and business leader, were appointed to inspect IRA weapons dumps.

She is former President of Service Centre for Development Cooperation and current Member of the executive bureau of Crisis Management Initiative which President is Martti Ahtisaari former President of Finland ( 1994 – 2000 ) and a United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.

Along with the ex-president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, he was appointed an inspector of the Irish Republican Army weapons dumps in Northern Ireland.

* Former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari.

* HE Martti Ahtisaari, former President of the Republic of Finland

* 7 September 1994: HE Martti Ahtisaari, former President of the Republic of Finland

In November 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Ahtisaari as Special Envoy for the Kosovo status process which was to determine whether Kosovo, having been administered by the United Nations since 1999, should become independent or remain a province of Serbia.

In June 1989, the UN Special Representative in Namibia and head of UNTAG, Martti Ahtisaari, told the Administrator-General ( South African appointee Louis Pienaar ) that this behaviour was inconsistent with the settlement proposal, which required the police to be lightly armed.

As a former head of state, Ahtisaari is a member of the Club of Madrid.

Ahtisaari is a member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation's Ibrahim Prize Committee.

President Ahtisaari supported Finland's entry into the European Union, and in a 1994 referendum, 57 percent of Finnish voters were in favour of EU membership.

In July 2007, however, when the EU, Russia and the United States agreed to find a new format for the talks, Ahtisaari announced that he regarded his mission as over.

He was followed by President Martti Ahtisaari, who was also a supporter of EU membership.

UNTAG's Martti Ahtisaari took advice from British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, who was visiting Southern Africa at the time, and authorized a limited contingent of South African troops to assist the South West African Police in restoring order.

She started her campaign for the presidency at the beginning of 1999 after President Martti Ahtisaari announced that he would not stand for a second term in the office.

The incumbent, Martti Ahtisaari, refused to run in party preliminaries and thus announced that he would not run for a second term.

Ahtisaari brought the parties together for the first direct dialogue in February 2006 to discuss decentralization of local government, an important measure in the protection of Kosovo Serb communities.

On 24 July 2006, Ahtisaari brought the parties together in Vienna for the first high-level talks on the status outcome itself.

Concluding that there was little hope of the two sides reconciling their positions independently, Ahtisaari said he would submit to the UN Security Council his own proposed status arrangements, including an explicit recommendation for the status outcome itself, by the end of March.

Nevertheless discussions proceeded with UN Commissioner for Namibia N ° 2 Martti Ahtisaari who played a key role in getting the Constitutional Principles agreed in 1982 by the front-line states, SWAPO, and the Western Contact Group.

Following the death of a later UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, on Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988 – on the eve of the signing of the Tripartite Accord at UN headquarters – Ahtisaari was sent to Namibia in April 1989 as the UN Special Representative to head the United Nations Transition Assistance Group ( UNTAG ).

In the event, Ahtisaari did not attend the meeting at the Keetmanshoop Hotel, where Le Roux and Barnard lay in wait for him, and thus Ahtisaari escaped injury.

Ahtisaari served as UN undersecretary general for administration and management from 1987 to 1991 causing mixed feelings inside the organization during an internal investigation of massive fraud.

During the three-week campaign between the two rounds of presidential elections, Ahtisaari was praised by his supporters for being more compassionate towards the many unemployed Finns than Rehn, who as Defence Minister had to officially support the Aho government's strict economic policies.

On December 1, 2000, Ahtisaari was awarded the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding by the Fulbright Association in recognition of his work as peacemaker in some of the world's most troubled areas.

In 2000 – 01, Ahtisaari and Cyril Ramaphosa inspected IRA weapons dumps for the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, as part of the Northern Ireland peace process.

In early 2006, Ahtisaari opened the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) in Vienna, Austria, from where he conducted the Kosovo status negotiations.

In later years of his career, Sorsa went into his Social Democratic Party's primary elections as candidate for president in 1993, but was defeated in a humiliating way by the relatively unknown international civil servant Martti Ahtisaari.

It includes five faculties, Infotech Oulu, Thule Institute, Giellagas Institute, Martti Ahtisaari Institute, Centre for Wireless Communications ( CWC ), Centre for Advanced Steel Research ( CASR ), Center of Microscopy and Nanotechnology, Botanical Gardens and Museum, Zoological Museum, Geological Museum and two science libraries ( Pegasus and Tellus ).