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

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.

* 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.

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.

Former UN Commissioner N ° 2 and now UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari arrived in Windhoek in April 1989 to head the UN Transition Assistance Group's ( UNTAG ) mission.

* 2008: Martti Ahtisaari

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 ).

In 1952, Martti Ahtisaari moved to Oulu with his family to seek employment.

In July 1989, Glenys Kinnock and Tessa Blackstone of the British Council of Churches visited Namibia and reported: " There is a widespread feeling that too many concessions were made to South African personnel and preferences and that Martti Ahtisaari was not forceful enough in his dealings with the South Africans.

Martti Ahtisaari did not sign the letter of the Nobelists that appealed to release Chinese 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.

* Martti Ahtisaari wins 2008 Nobel Peace Prize

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

* Martti Ahtisaari, Finnish president

* Three former Presidents of the country, Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Kyösti Kallio and Martti Ahtisaari

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

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.

They all became influential forces behind Martti Ahtisaari campaign.

Since the presidency of Martti Ahtisaari, all surviving recipients of the Mannerheim Cross have been invited to the Independence Day Reception, hosted by the president.

* In 1994 the SFP's candidate Elisabeth Rehn was defeated by the Social Democrat candidate Martti Ahtisaari, also with a narrow margin ( 53. 9 % to 46. 1 %).

* 2008 Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics

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 ).

Hasu's teammate Martti Huhtala took the silver and Sven Israelsson from Sweden won the bronze.

In fact, from January 1941 to March 1943, even the far-right Patriotic People's Movement ( IKL ) participated in the government ( see, for example, Martti Turtola, " Risto Ryti: A Life for the Fatherland ", Sakari Virkkunen, " The Finnish Presidents II ", and " The Republic's Presidents 1940-1956 " / Tasavallan presidentit 1940-1956 ).

In May 1956, just five months before his death, he received an honorary doctorate in political science from the Helsinki University ( see Martti Turtola, " Risto Ryti: A Life for the Fatherland ").

The mayor of Pori is Aino-Maija Luukkonen, who was elected to run the city in 2004 after the former mayor, Martti Sinisalmi, retired from the post.

Some notable persons originally from Ilmajoki include the javelin thrower Tero Pitkämäki, the wrestler Marko Yli-Hannuksela, the ethnomusicologist Martti Erik Ala-Könni, and the historical figure Jaakko Ilkka.

* Other Club de Madrid members involved in the diplomatic process include Helmut Kohl, the former Chancellor of Germany who oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany, who was a signee to the Dayton Accords, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who urged support for Canada's participation in Operation Allied Force, and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari who, along with Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, convinced Serbian President Slobodan Milošević to retreat from Kosovo in accordance with NATO's demands.

His father, John Morton ( Senior ), was Finnish, who originated from Finland with his great-grandfather, Martti Marttinen ( the family's original name, anglicized as Morton ), himself a native of Rautalampi, Finland, who had arrived in the Swedish colony of New Sweden in 1654.

As its name suggests, it is located on the east side of the river Aura, and stretches from the IV District ( Martti ) all the way to the mouth of the river.

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 ).

In the Iraqgate scandal, Halonen's advisor Martti Manninen leaked confidential documents to the Centre Party leader Anneli Jäätteenmäki, who had become Prime Minister.

* Martti Miettunen, Prime Minister of Finland 1961-1962 and 1975 – 1977

Moreover, Ryti's personal political success continued even after his liberal-oriented National Progressive Party shrank to a fringe party, because he was considered an expert especially in economic policy and, very importantly, an impartial servant of the fatherland who refused to play partisan politics ( see Martti Turtola, " Risto Ryti: A Life for the Fatherland ").

Among the Finnish settlers of New Sweden was Martti Marttinen, who came to North America in 1654 and changed his name to Morton.

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.

Others still, among them Martti Haavio, contend that Rauni is simply an epithet for a deity called Ukko, who may or may not be the well-known Finnish thunder god, and that the other theories are based on misreading a poem documenting Finnish Pre-Christian belief authored by Mikael Agricola.

He travelled extensively in Finland and abroad, and was nicknamed " Matka-Mara " (" Travel-Mara ," Mara being a common diminutive form of Martti ).

Martti Juhani Miettunen ( 17 April 1907 – 19 January 2002 ), was a politician in Finland.

On May 13, 2006, Martti Korhonen was elected as the new party leader.

Many former ministers including but not limited to Kaarlo Hillilä, Martti Miettunen, Hannele Pokka and Anneli Taina served as governors, since the post was regarded as prestigious enough for a retiring minister, but still politically neutral.

Mannerheim had created the Coast Group to repel the enemy, but its first commander Major General Kurt Martti Wallenius was dismissed in disgrace after holding the command only for three days.

The term Finglish was introduced by professor Martti Nisonen in 1920s in Hancock, Michigan, to describe a linguistic phenomenon he encountered in America.

Tsurunen was born Martti Turunen in the village of Jaakonvaara in Lieksa, Finland.

The first book in Inari Sámi was Anar sämi kiela aapis kirje ja doctor Martti Lutherus Ucca katkismus, which was written and translated by Edvard Wilhelm Borg in 1859.

Kurt Martti Wallenius ( July 25, 1893 in Kuopio – May 3, 1984 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish Major General.

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