ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win is a "a great honor."<br/> <br />The organization received the prize for overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile during a civil war.<br/> <br />Ahmet Uzumcu, of the OPCW, said in a news conference in The Hague the recent events in Syria were "a tragic reminder" that much work remains to be done.<br/> <br />"Our hearts go out to the Syrian people who were recently victims of the horrors of chemical weapons," Uzumcu said.<br/> <br />The OPCW dispatched its experts after a sarin gas attack killed more than 1,400 people in Syria in August. Their deployment, supported by the United Nations, helped avert a U.S. strike against President Bashar al-Assad.
