Nobel Peace Prize 2013 Won OPCW (Organisation For The Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons) The Chemical Weapons Watchdog.

Nobel  Peace Prize 2013 Won  OPCW (Organisation For The Prohibition Of Chemical Weapons) The Chemical Weapons Watchdog.

                        The OPCW, the body overseeing destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Committee said it was in honour of the OPCW's 'extensive work to eliminate chemical weapons'.The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons was established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons convention.

                          It recently sent inspectors to oversee the dismantling of Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons.Set up in 1997 to eliminate all chemicals weapons worldwide, its mission gained critical importance this year after a sarin gas strike in the suburbs of Damascus killed more than 1,400 people in August. The prize will be presented in Oslo on December 10, the anniversary of the death of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel.The OPCW, based in the Hague in the Netherlands, has about 500 staff and an annual budget of under $100 million.