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Tributes paid to former leader who oversaw his country’s vote to join EU and won Nobel peace prize in 2008
The Former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, a renowned peace broker, has died aged 86.
The Social Democrat was president of Finland between 1994 and 2000. After a lengthy career that earned him a global reputation as a peace mediator and the Nobel peace prize, he retired from public life in September 2021 owing to dementia.
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