Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
16:59, 11 October 2013
OSLO. October 11. KAZINFORM Nobel Peace Prize 2013 has been awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This was announced on Friday, October 11, by Head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland.
This year, there were 259 candidates for this award. October 1, ita was reported that the International Academy of Unity of Nations of the World has named Vladimir Putin as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize. Among other candidates were Denis Mukwege, a Kongolese gynecologist that saved lives of thousands of women that were raped and tortured during the civil war in the country; Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai that was shot in the head by Talibani militants when she was 14; ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden; U.S. soldier Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Itar-Tass reports.