Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons pressures US, Russia after Nobel award

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee praised the OPCW for creating an environment in which it might be possible “to eliminate an entire category of deadly weapons”, adding: “The conventions and work of the OPCW have defined the use of chemical weapons as a taboo under international law.”

The committee’s chairman, Thorbjorn Jagland, singled out the US and Russia – ironically, the two countries that brokered the Syrian chemical disarmament plan – for having failed to meet a deadline of April 2012 for completing the destruction of their own remaining chemical agents.

OPCW statistics released this year showed that 81.1 per cent of the world’s “declared” chemical weapons had already been destroyed, and specifically that the US had destroyed about 90 per cent of its stock while Russia had done away with roughly 70 per cent.

Mr Jagland said both countries now had a moral obligation to complete their destruction programmes “especially because they are demanding that other countries, such as Syria, should do the same”.

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/weapons-body-pressures-us-russia-after-nobel-award-1.1558182

The OPCW does good work. Nice to see them take advantage of this opportunity to call out the US and Russia for their "Do as I say, not as I do" behavior.