Friday, October 11, 2013

Nobel Peace Prize 2013

 Nobel Peace Prize 2013.  Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons( OPCW) based in The Hague, Netherlands has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2013. The OPCW was formed in 1997 to enforce the Chemical Weapons Convention. The  Chemical Weapons Convention is  the first international treaty to outlaw chemical weapons.

The organization has 189 member states and Syria has officially joined it just a couple of days before.  OPCW inspectors are on a highly risky United Nations—backed disarmament mission  in Syria to verify and destroy Syria’s  store of poison gas and nerve agents arsenals, in face of  civil war, which is taking its toll on a daily basis.

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