Finland's Ahtisaari welcomes Nobel Peace Prize

Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:28am BST
 
Email | Print | | Single Page
[-] Text [+]

OSLO (Reuters) - Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari welcomed the award of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peace work and said he felt his most important contribution was in Namibia.

"Naturally I am very pleased by the decision and very grateful," he told NRK public radio.

Asked which he felt was his biggest achievement, he said: "Naturally Namibia was absolutely the most important because it took such a long time" towards independence for Namibia. He also mentioned work in Indonesia's Aceh province and the Balkans.

 
Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling speaks at a Thomson Reuters newsmaker event in London October 21, 2009. REUTERS/Andrew Winning
Darling says stimulus stays

G20 policymakers are agreed that it is too early to pull the plug on economic life-support packages, Chancellor Alistair Darling tells Reuters.  Full Article 

Most Popular General News on Reuters UK

  • Articles
  • Videos
 A demonstrator pounds away the Berlin Wall as East Berlin border guards look on from above the Brandenburg Gate in this November 11, 1989 file photo. REUTERS/David Brauchli/File Photo
Berlin Wall anniversary

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall's fall, Reuters provides an in-depth, multimedia look at one of the 20th Century's defining moments.   Full Coverage