Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to U.N. Chemical Weapons Watchdog Agency

[cali]

Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to the United Nations body charged with destroying Syria’s stocks of chemical weapons under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States.

In its citation, the committee said: “Recent events in Syria, where chemical weapons have again been put to use, have underlined the need to enhance the efforts to do away with such weapons.”

It was the second successive year that the panel, based in Oslo, Norway, chose an organization for its accolade. The European Union won the 2012 prize.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/12/world/chemical-weapons-watchdog-wins-nobel-peace-prize.html?_r=0

[B Calm]

1. I was hoping the Pakistani school girl Malala who was shot head for going

to school would win!

[delrem]

2. Yes. A UN agency, governed from above, doesn't compare.

To award it to a UN agency is just to pat oneself on the back.

There's no comparison to the individual significance of Malala's contribution.

[B Calm]

5. Exactly!

[joshcryer]

3. Can't disagree.

But at least we didn't get another Kissenger.

[JI7]

4. they probably think she will go on to even greater things for which

she will have many more chances to win.

[dembotoz]

6. also had hoped the girl would win but hard to argue with the decision

the chemical weapons thing is kinda a big deal

and they could have given it to putin which would have been a kissenger moment