The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, responsible for overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, has won this year's prize. Do you think it deserves the award? Add your comment here

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The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, has won this year's prize for its extensive efforts to rid the world of chemical weapons.

Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl and campaigner, Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege, and WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning were among the favourites to win.

The Nobel committe chairman, Thorbjørn Jagland, said the prize recognises the organisation's wider efforts, and is meant to encourage other nations to sign up to the chemical weapons prohibition treaty.

Peter Walker, reporting in the Guardian's Nobel peace prize live blog, described the announcement as "one of those peace prizes you could categorise as an incentive as much as a reward. It would focus attention on the OPCW's work in Syria, with the presumed hope they would succeed. Such decisions can be risky, particularly with a plan centred on somewhere so currently chaotic as Syria."

Here's a round-up of Twitter reaction. Add you comment to the thread and we'll post the best above the line.

Nobelprize_org (@Nobelprize_org) By awarding the OPCW, the Norwegian Nobel Committee seeks to contribute to eliminating chemical weapons. #NobelPeacePrize

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peter beaumont (@petersbeaumont) Lot of journos criticism over Nobel peace prize seems to stem from fact Malala would have been better story if not necs a better recipient

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GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) OPCW should have won #NobelPeacePrize in 2003, when it defied Bush by offering alternative to Iraq war. http://t.co/fvOOyLgXEO

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Julian Borger (@julianborger) A deserved Nobel prize for the OPCW, a disarmament success story, showing its worth in Syria. My take: http://t.co/Byjjefg3jP #OPCW #Nobel

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Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) Very disappointed #Malala didn't win the Nobel peace prize. Nobody in the world right now is a more powerfully eloquent advocate for peace.

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Maria Abi-Habib (@Abihabib) Shocked Malala didn't win Nobel peace prize. OPCW wins same way Obama did in '09 - w/no actual work to judge, just hoping for a good ending

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The Associated Press have put together this guide to the OPCW and its work.

You can read the full text announcement from the Nobel Committee website.

Do you think it deserves the award?