The world chemical watchdog said today that it hoped its Nobel Peace Prize win would convince countries to ban chemical weapons.
“I know that the Nobel Peace Prize will help us in fact to promote the universality of the (Chemical Weapons) Convention in the next months. Hopefully we will be able to achieve it soon,” OPCW head Ahmet Uzumcu told Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, in the organisation’s first reaction to the surprise announcement that it had won the prestigious award.
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