Giving voice to these expectations this week was this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Martti Ahtisaari.
This autumn, Martti Ahtisaari, the Finnish chairman of talks on Kosovo's future, is likely to propose granting it independence.
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UN-led group under the leadership of Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president, has now started discussions on Kosovo's future status.
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An independent commission of pro-Turkey bigwigs, led by a former Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, will publish a progress report on September 7th.
The dinner, which represents the first meeting of the two leaders in 11 months, was hosted by Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari at the Presidential Palace.
UN's special envoy, Martti Ahtisaari, that envisages a conditionally independent state.
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Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari.
Terms of the agreement reached last week with Milosevic by Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will be annexed to the resolution.
That was a very odd thing to say the day before Martti Ahtisaari presented his plan for the independence of Kosovo to the United Nations Security Council.
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Terms of the agreement reached last week with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by Russian mediator Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will be annexed to the resolution.
At the last election, in 1994, they nearly did but the stolid Martti Ahtisaari, the Social Democratic incumbent who is now giving up, squeaked through on the second round.
It has helped keep Kosovo stable and push through legislation mandated by the independence plan drawn up by Martti Ahtisaari, a former Finnish president and Nobel peace prize laureate.
Russian Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott were to meet in Helsinki with Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari for more talks on ending the crisis.
Russian special envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin and Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, the European Union's envoy, presented the peace plan to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic during talks in Belgrade on Wednesday and Thursday.
Indeed, the role of President Martti Ahtisaari as the West's peace-broker (or message-carrier) in Yugoslavia may, the Finns hope, have given their plans a bit more weight in Brussels and Washington.
Something had clearly gone wrong with the deal that Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Russian envoy, and Finland's President Martti Ahtisaari (speaking for the European Union) had seemingly forced on Mr Milosevic, with the explicit assent of Serbia's parliament, on June 3rd.
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