Martti Ahtisaari

Nobel winner Ahtisaari: “support peace envoy Tony Blair”

Home Sunday 16th Nov: Olmert accuses Hamas of shattering truce after two rockets hit Israel. What chance peace? Comment at end 16th November, 2008 WILL THE NOBEL PEACE WINNER’S CALL TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY BE HEARD?...

New "resale" ticket plan shameful

With Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, above, sidelined until at least early March, it is unlikely the wins record held by former Avs goalie Patrick Roy will be broken this season. (Getty Images) The NHL and Ticketmaster sent out...

Ex-UN negotiator backs K. Albanians

A former negotiator in the Kosovo status talks says the Kosovo Albanian government is entitled to oppose any proposal “not in line with Kosovo’s constitution”. “The government has the legitimate right to oppose anything that is...

Romania also has “EULEX condition”

Romanian Ambassador to Serbia Jon Makovei today commented on his country’s position regarding the deployment of EULEX. Makovei stated that Romania will not take part in the European Union mission in Kosovo if the mission...

Tadić: Priština can be persuaded

Pres. Boris Tadić thinks the international community has enough instruments at its disposal to persuade Priština to accept the agreement for EULEX’s deployment. “The six-point agreement that Serbia reached with the UN are the...

Guest column: Follow example of Nobel winner: Be pragmatic in diplomacy

Like most individuals from a small country, I pay close attention when my homeland makes the headlines. In the last year, news from my native Finland has not been uplifting. Two horrible school shootings received significant...

UN Security Council session on Kosovo postponed again

PRISTINA, Kosovo -- A UN Security Council session whose agenda included Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's report on Kosovo and EULEX's deployment saw another postponement on Tuesday (November 11th). The Council gave no reason and...

Departure of EU Peacekeepers Concerns Bosnia's Muslims

EU defense ministers are to review the fate of Europe's peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. Muslims are opposed to the departure of the peacekeepers, even though analysts deny there is any risk of renewed conflict.

Jeremić: Belgrade's conditions, or blocking

Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić said in an interview for an Austrian daily that the EULEX talks could go either way. Jeremić told Der Standard that either Serbia's conditions could be accepted, or that a blocking of the EU...

John Patterson: Saying goodbye to the biggest political jokes of all time

Exit stage right. By campaign's end, he and Palin – "two fictional characters", as singer John Legend tartly dubbed them – had come to resemble Il Duce and his luckless mistress Clara Petacchi – and look what became of them....

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