Here's to the 2013 Nobel Laureate, the OPCW


  • Nation
  • Thursday, 19 Dec 2013

Honoured : Ahmet (left) posing with Fauziah at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

But remember, a handful of countries still have well-documented stockpiles of chemical weapons.

LAST week, the Nobel Peace Committee awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Protection of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) – an obscure disarmament entity that was established in 1997 and now has almost universal membership.

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