Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Stubb (National Coalition Party) hopes that the party who wrote to the Nobel Committee in 2007 with a view to "blackballing" former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari will step forward.
As was reported yesterday, former cabinet minister and Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Per Stenbäck revealed in his memoirs that a "well-known" Finnish person had attempted to prevent the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the diplomat and mediator.
Ahtisaari was awarded the prize in 2008.
"If there is someone who has a different view on these things, then it is part of the foreign policy debate. Of course it would be nice if such a person could speak openly about it", said Stubb on Tuesday at the publication event of a book of his blog entries.
Stubb appears to be no closer than anyone else to the identity of the alleged whistleblower: he said he didn't have "the faintest idea" who it might be.
The subject of the hostile approach to the Nobel Committee has inevitably sparked a brushfire of speculation on online message boards.
