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Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari Wednesday called on U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to "give high priority to the Middle East conflict in his first year in office."

"All crises, including the one in the Middle East, can be solved," the former Finnish president said in his Nobel acceptance speech, even as he admitted it was "the most challenging peace-building project ahead of us.

"We cannot go on, year after year, simply pretending to do something to help the situation in the Middle East. We must also get results," he said as he received the prize for his efforts to resolve conflicts from Kosovo to Indonesia and Namibia. Read full article »

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