will know about but they are are an important one because they are the complementing authority to getting rid of chemical weapons in the world. one of the things that nobel committee cited as a reason for giving them this prize is their battle for chemical weapons the past couple of decades and they have come far for getting chemical weapons in the u.s. and russia after an agreement between those two countries and both countries had vast stockpiles of a nerve agent that is deadly. the main reason why they are getting this prize right now is because of their work in syria. they were on the ground. they found traces of sarin gas in syria after that chemical attack earlier this year. we are seeing apparently syria disarming and the opcw is playing a very important and vital role in all of that. if we look at the reason why the opcw probably most got this prize on the one hand the work done in the past but also for the work currently going on right now and which many people