The United Nations body charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States has been awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize.
Norwegian Nobel Committee annonuved the 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
According to the New York Times, inspectors from the 189-member OPCW began arriving in Syria this month after a chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21 killed hundreds of people.
The award is worth 1.25 million dollars and will be presented on December 10, the anniversary of the death of its founder, the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, who established the prize in 1895 in his will.
