The
head of a watchdog group that is trying to rid the world of chemical weapons
has received the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital. Ahmet
Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, collected the award Tuesday on behalf of the group.
Noting
the organization's role in leading the mission to destroy Syria's chemical
weapons, Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland said the "anonymous
inspectors from the OPCW do an extremely important and difficult job." At the start of his speech Jagland paid
tribute to the late Nelson Mandela, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with F.W.
de Klerk in 1993.
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