"Hiski" <hiskih@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On 10 loka, 12:43, "J. Anderson" <anderso...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> It took quite some time, but finally the Norwegian parliament's peace
>> prize committee had to do the inevitable and honour somebody who has
been
>> working for peace for several decades. Finnish ex-President Martti
>> Ahtisaari had been looming in the waiting-room ever since he brought
>> Namibia safely on its road to independence twenty years ago.
>
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>
> Besides Namibia, Ahtisaari was also involved in bringing the nearly
> pan-European Kosovo war of 1999 to an end, and pacifying the
> rebellious Aceh province of Indonesia a couple of years ago. That
> makes three reasons why I agree with the Nobel committee, for a
> change.
He also pacified Slobodan Milosevic in 1999, let's not forget reason
number
4.
> As president of Finland (1994-2000) he was not very successful, and it
> seems that nobody even seriously asked him to stand up for re-election
> in 2000. For most of his term, he was the object of public scorn.
There were a few things he said today that I didn't like. Like teaching
the
media that it was improper to ask what he would do with the money -- that
question has always been asked and usually there has been some sort of
answer.
Neither was it necessary to say that he had no competitors for the prize
now
that the Committee had gone back to honouring mediators.
P.S. I added soc.culture.baltics, since there's never any real discussion
about anything in this god-forsaken newsgroup (soc.culture.nordic).
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