This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, is executing the Russian-US plan to destroy the Syrian government's stockpiles. But the OPCW has suffered from budget cuts and personnel reductions, jeopardizing one of the most successful nonproliferation agreements in history.
WASHINGTON, DC – Syria’s chemical-weapons arsenal has rightly galvanized international attention. The chemical attacks against civilians have prompted Russia and the United States to put aside diplomatic tensions to devise a plan to eliminate the Syrian regime’s stockpiles. And the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which has been tasked with executing the Russian-US plan, has just been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
WASHINGTON, DC – Syria’s chemical-weapons arsenal has rightly galvanized international attention. The chemical attacks against civilians have prompted Russia and the United States to put aside diplomatic tensions to devise a plan to eliminate the Syrian regime’s stockpiles. And the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which has been tasked with executing the Russian-US plan, has just been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.