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.

Ahtisaari twice worked to find a solution in Kosovo – first in 1999 and again between 2005 and 2007.

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

Laureates during his times as chair were Shirin Ebadi ( 2003 ), Wangari Maathai ( 2004 ) the International Atomic Energy Agency and Mohamed ElBaradei ( 2005 ) Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank ( 2006 ), Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( 2007 ), and Martti Ahtisaari ( 2008 ).

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 ).

GIOVE # GIOVE-A | GIOVE-A was successfully launched 28 December 2005.

It was built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd ( SSTL ), and successfully launched on 28 December 2005 by the European Space Agency and the Galileo Joint.

Kültepe was successfully excavated by Professor Tahsin Özgüç from 1948 until his death in 2005.

In March 2005, the U. S. and Oman launched negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement that were successfully concluded in October 2005.

* 2005 – The SSETI Express micro-satellite is successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

Lasting for twenty-six seasons in its original form, it was successfully revived from 2005, now having 33 seasons.

In 2005, mainland Tanzania ( i. e. not Zanzibar ) modified its licensing system for electronic communications, modelling it on the approach successfully pioneered in Malaysia in the late 1990s where traditional ' vertical ' licences ( right to operate a telecoms OR broadcasting network, and right to provide services on that network ) are replaced by ' horizontal ' licences ( right to operate a telecoms AND broadcasting network, but a separate licence required to provide services on that network ).

On September 22, 2005, Square Enix announced successfully acquiring 93. 7 % of all shares of Taito, effectively owning the entire company.

The show successfully moved to Broadway in February 2005.

In July 2005, Polanski successfully sued Vanity Fair magazine for libel after it stated that he had tried to seduce a woman on his way to Tate's funeral.

These account for about 30 % of gamma-ray bursts, but until 2005, no afterglow had been successfully detected from any short event and little was known about their origins.

The reintroduced horses successfully reproduced, and the status of the animal was changed from " extinct in the wild " to " endangered " in 2005.

During 2005, Telenor successfully extracted a number of cross-border synergies across the group.

In experiments in June 2004 and December 2005, the dubnium isotope was successfully identified by milking the Db fraction and measuring any SF activities.

Though it successfully re-bid for the franchise in 2005, it was asked to surrender it in December 2006.

About 3, 000 trout were stocked successfully into a four-mile ( 6 km ) section of the Creek downstream from Boswell in 2005, the first time the creek supported a fishery along this stretch in almost 100 years.

Other appearances of jiangshi in Hong Kong cinema include the 2005 comedy film Dragon Reloaded, where the three protagonists accidentally destroy a village tomb, successfully resurrect the corpse and command it.

However, Waddell & Bodek's 2005 analysis indicates that this theory was not successfully implemented in GM's practice.

Fans successfully folded the minimal of 1000 cranes by the end of the 2005 convention season, however at this time, there is still no sign that a second season of the anime series will be forthcoming.

Turbolinux successfully completed an IPO on the Osaka Stock Exchange in September 2005 underwritten by Nikko Citigroup, Livedoor Securities Co. Ltd., and Mizuho Investors Securities Co., Ltd.

After poor results in the 2001 parliamentary election, and the subsequent fall of his government on 19 October of that same year, Stoltenberg successfully challenged Thorbjørn Jagland for the party leadership in 2002, and led the party to victory in the 2005 election by forming a Red-Green coalition government with the Centre Party ( Sp ) and the Socialist Left Party ( SV ).

) As a result, later teams have been more willing to move successful starters — notably Dennis Eckersley, Dave Righetti, and John Smoltz — to the permanent role of closer, with no plans to bring them back to the rotation ( although Smoltz bucked that trend by successfully returning to the rotation in 2005 ).

An effort to recreate the 1918 flu strain ( a subtype of avian strain H1N1 ) was a collaboration among the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City ; the effort resulted in the announcement ( on 5 October 2005 ) that the group had successfully determined the virus's genetic sequence, using historic tissue samples recovered by pathologist Johan Hultin from a female flu victim buried in the Alaskan permafrost and samples preserved from American soldiers.

The Diamondbacks, led by Melvin, finished the 2005 season with a record of 77 wins and 85 losses.

The largest class action suit to date in Canada was settled in 2005 after Nora Bernard initiated efforts that led to an estimated 79, 000 survivors of Canada's residential school system suing the Canadian government.

In late 2005, interest in digital 3-D stereoscopic projection has led to a new willingness on the part of theaters to co-operate in installing a limited number of 2K stereo installations to show Disney's Chicken Little in 3-D film.

The corruption evident in these maneuvers finally led Quito's middle classes to seek the ousting of Gutiérrez in early 2005.

In the past few decades, much of the freight traffic shifted from rail to road, which led the Federal Government to introduce a motor toll for trucks in 2005.

This resurgence led George A. Romero to return to his Living Dead series with Land of the Dead ( 2005 ), Diary of the Dead ( 2007 ) and Survival of the Dead ( 2010 ).

Reports of at least one male Ivory-billed Woodpecker in Arkansas in 2004 were investigated and subsequently published in April 2005 by a team led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ( Fitzpatrick et al., 2005 ).

The prospect of ministerial government and the creation of an executive and opposition, led to the formation of two political parties – the Jersey Democratic Alliance and the Centre Party – in preparation for the 2005 elections.

In August 2005, a military coup led by Col. Ely Ould Mohamed Vall ended Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya's 21 years of strong-arm rule.

At the 2005 general elections, the MLP led Alliance Sociale coalition won the elections and Navin Ramgoolam became Prime Minister while Sir Anerood Jugnauth remained the president.

On 1 February 2005 King Gyanendra suspended the Parliament, appointed a government led by himself, and enforced martial law.

For most of the period between 2002 and 2005, the FARC-EP was believed to be in a strategic withdrawal due to the increasing military and police actions of new president Álvaro Uribe, which led to the capture or desertion of many fighters and medium-level commanders.

The government of Saudi Arabia is led by the monarch, King Abdullah ibn Abdul Aziz, who acceded to the throne in 2005.

The resumption of the civil-war in 2005 led to a steep increase defence expenditures.

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

The developments of 2005 led to renewed questions about a commitment to democracy made by Togo in 2004 in a bid to normalise ties with the European Union, which cut off aid in 1993 over the country's human rights record.

In recent years, the chronically high inflation has been brought under control and this has led to the launch of a new currency, the " New Turkish lira ", on January 1, 2005, to cement the acquisition of the economic reforms and erase the vestiges of an unstable economy.

Scientists disagreed with the assertion that intelligent design is scientific, and its introduction into the the science curriculum of a Pennsylvania school district led to the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, which ruled that the " intelligent design " arguments are essentially religious in nature and not science.

These factors led to the network struggling in the ratings over the past few years, with its most recent Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Enterprise, perhaps suffering the most and ultimately being cancelled by the network in a controversial decision in February 2005.

This led to a great deal of debate in the industry, but without any visible changes until March 2005, when Electronic Arts internally announced that it was planning to extend overtime pay to some of its employees not currently eligible.

The last modification to the Constitution on 27 November 2005 turned the city into a " community " ( hamaynk ); since, the Constitution declares that this community has to be led by a mayor, elected directly or indirectly, and that the city needs to be governed by a specific law.

The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and Tunis ( 2003 and 2005 ) has led to a number of policy and application areas where action is required.

In 2005, a dispute erupted between moderates and radicals within the party that led to the ouster of some of the more radical members.