Namibian independence the highlight of my career: Ahtisaari
OSLO (AFP) — Finland's Martti Ahtisaari, who on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize for more than 30 years of peace mediation around the globe, said leading Namibia to independence was the highlight of his career.
"Of course Namibia is the most important since it took so long," he told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK when asked what he considered his biggest achievement, immediately after the announcement in Oslo.
As the UN secretary general's special envoy to Namibia, he helped lead the country down the peaceful path towards independence from South Africa in 1990, culminating more than a decade of negotiations.
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