Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
According to Reuters, on October 11, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), responsible for overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, had won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
With the support of the United Nations, experts from the Hague-based organization are carrying out the mission of destroying Syria's huge chemical weapons stockpile after the Sarin nerve gas attack in the suburbs of the capital Damascus in August, killing more than 1,400 people.
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The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, worth $1.25 million, will be awarded in Oslo, the capital of Norway, on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the "father" of the Nobel Prize - Swedish capitalist Alfred Nobel.
AFP news agency quoted a source from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) as saying on October 8 that the organization will deploy a second team of inspectors to speed up the program of destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
The OPCW statement said “the deployment of the second team will support the advance team of OPCW experts who have been in Syria since 1 October to conduct inspection and destruction operations” of chemical weapons, but did not give further details about the new inspection team.
The OPCW will have until mid-2014 to complete the disarmament of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal under the terms of the proposed Russia-US agreement./.
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