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During the next 10 years about 1.2 billion young 15-to-30-year-olds will be entering the job market and with the means now at our disposal about 300 million will get a job. What will we offer these young, about a billion of them? — or will we leave them to be recruited by criminal leagues and terrorists? … I think this is one of the greatest challenges if we want to achieve peaceful development and hope for these young.

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I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

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You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

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Since I know that about a million people have been killed by the government of Iraq, I do not need much those weapons of mass destruction.

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It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough.

Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari

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Born: June 23, 1937 (age 84)

Bio: Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and United Nations diplomat and mediator, noted for his international peace work.

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