Ahmet Uzumcu, director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) accepted the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize and said that chemical weapons have an "especially nefarious legacy," according to a report by the Associated Press.

"You cannot see them. You cannot smell them. And they offer no warning for the unsuspecting," Uzumcu said as he collected the $1.2 million award from the prestigious award-giving body in Oslo on behalf of OPCW, according to the report.

Founded on April 29, 1997, OPCW now has 190 member states working together to achieve a chemical-free world. The organization was formed to enforce a 1997 international convention outlawing chemical weapons, the report said.

OPCW worked quietly for many years, but gain more public attention when it was tasked to oversee the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons. Syria is the 190^th state to join OPCW.

The Nobel Peace Prize was announced on Oct. 11, just days before Syria officially joined the OPCW as its 190th member state.

"It is of course a huge challenge for the OPCW to manage to destroy all these weapons under the conditions of war and chaos prevailing in the country," said Thorbjorn Jagland, Nobel committee chairman. "The anonymous inspectors from the OPCW do an extremely important and difficult job."

The committee chairman also called on the U.S. and Russia to eliminate fast the two countries' stockpile of chemical weapons. Jagland have also urged Angola, North Korea, Egypt, South Sudan, Israel and Myanmar - the six countries that have not signed or ratified the convention on chemical weapons - to follow suit.

Jagland called on the U.S. and Russia to speed up the elimination of their own stockpiles and urged the six countries that have not signed or ratified the chemical weapons convention - Angola, North Korea, Egypt, South Sudan, Israel and Myanmar - to do so.

"On the road to a more peaceful world, however, it is nevertheless important to combat the most monstrous weapons first, the weapons of mass destruction," Jagland said.

The Nobel awards in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were presented in Stockholm, Tuesday, December 10.

It has been the tradition that the awarding ceremonies are held on December 10 to commemorate the death anniversary of Alfred Nobel, the prize founder in 1896.

The award ceremonies are always held on Dec. 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.