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Chemical Weapons Watchdog Wins Nobel Peace Prize

HeadlineOct 11, 2013

The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a Hague-based group tasked with enforcing the Chemical Weapons Convention. The group recently sent inspectors to dismantle Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons as part of a deal aimed at averting U.S. military strikes.

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