President Hage Geingob has said Finland’s late former president Martti Ahtisaari served the Namibian people.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has died in Helsinki at the age of 86 after battling Alzheimer’s disease.
“The history of Martti Athissari is incomplete without Namibia, a country he was associated with in the many roles that he occupied,” Geingob said.
The president added that major parts of the country’s history would equally be incomplete without the name of Ahtisaari.
Serving as Finnish president from 1994 to 2000, Ahtisaari was also a mediator who negotiated an end to conflicts around the globe, from Namibia to Indonesia and Kosovo, earning him worldwide recognition and a Nobel Peace Prize in 2008, as part of a formidable career spanning over 40 years.
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