Finland's Ahtisaari welcomes Nobel Peace Prize

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.

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.

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"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.