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Azerbaijan oil fuels Nobel Peace prize; Filipino part of winning group

OPCW Director-Gneral Ahmet Uzumcu in a presscon oct 9 in The Hague on their winning the Nobel Prize.
OPCW Director-Gneral Ahmet Uzumcu in a presscon oct 9 in The Hague on their winning the Nobel Prize.
A Filipino is a member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons which won the highly prestigious Nobel Peace Prize for this year.

His name is Franz Ontal, head of the inspector training of the United Nations-backed chemical weapons international watchdog, which oversaw the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons.

Ontal is from Negros Occidental. An article in the Philippine Daily Inquirer said studied in La Salle Bacolod where he completed his undergraduate course in biology. He immigrated to the United States in the 1980s and worked in New York where he held jobs related to medical services. In 2005, he joined the OPWC in The Hague. Netherlands first as a medic for the chemical weapons inspector and disposal teams. He now holds the position of head of inspector training.