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Ahmet Uzumcu - Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Director-General

13/12/2013 GMT

Director General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - Ahmet Üzümcü

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The OPCW has won the Nobel Peace Prize but can the organisation achieve peace in Syria?

When the Nobel Committee awarded this year’s Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), its staff was on the ground in Syria overseeing the removal and destruction of the country’s chemical weapons. Sarah Montague travelled to Oslo to speak to the Director General of the OPCW, Ahmet Üzümcü as he collected the prize. Does the work of his organisation mean peace is more likely in Syria?

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