Prime Minister Najib Mikati
on Wednesday held a meeting with Minister of Social Affairs Wael Abu Faour, UN
High Commissioner for Refugees representative Ninette Kelley and other relevant
officials to discuss Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Following the meeting, Abu
Faour said that the attendees discussed the working mechanism between the
Lebanese government and the UN refugee agency.
He also told reporters that
the premier “stressed that the issue of the Syrian refugees in Lebanon is a
humanitarian and nonpolitical situation.”
“It is not in our interests
[to drop the issue of Syrian refugees]… Lebanon will not fail to [fulfill its]
duties toward [the refugees] without politicizing [this subject], or
interfering in Syrian internal affairs.”
Syria has witnessed
anti-regime protests since mid-March 2011. The United Nations estimated that
more than 9,000 people have been killed in the regime’s crackdown on dissent.
Thousands have fled to Lebanon.
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