Martti Ahtisaari Quotes
During the next 10 years about 1.2 billion young 15-to-30-year-olds will be entering the [worldwide] 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..
Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland, United Nations diplomat and mediator, Nobel Peace Laureate, Interview with Finnish YLE TV, quoted in "Nobel Peace Prize winner wants jobs for the young" in International Herald Tribune, October 11, 2008
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Martti Oiva Kalevi Ahtisaari is a Finnish politician, the tenth President of Finland (1994–2000), a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and a United Nations diplomat and mediator noted for his international peace work.
