Syrian Ambassador: Lebanon Must Look for Solutions for Displaced Syrians
Syria's ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali said he acknowledges the burden on Lebanon as the result of displaced Syrians fleeing the war ravaging their country, but he questioned the “lack of Lebanese government initiatives to find solutions,” the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Ali admitted that Lebanon is bearing “the burden of displaced Syrians,” but he wondered about the reasons keeping the Lebanese “government from taking initiatives to find solutions” for the crisis, he said.
The ambassador spoke during a lecture at the Center for Palestinian Studies titled The Syrian Crisis, Areas of Reducing Tension - Motives and Challenges.
Whether there is cooperation between the Lebanese and Syrian governments in that regard, he said: “The Lebanese state is a sister country, we have minimal coordination. The answer to this question is with the Lebanese government, because our enemy is one, Israel and terrorism.”
He reiterated that there is coordination with the Lebanese state "even if there are some mistakes from the Syrians, we call for more coordination between the institutions of the two countries for the interest of both peoples, and families deployed on the common border."
The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said more than six million Syrians have fled their country since its devastating war broke out in 2011.
Of those, Lebanon is hosting more than 1.5 million Syrians, roughly a quarter of its current population of four million.
The influx of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has stretched the country's economic resources.
In the education system, classrooms were overcrowded with the number of students more than doubling in six years to accommodate Syrian pupils.
Lebanon, whose infrastructure was devastated during a 15-year war that ended in 1990, is struggling with endemic corruption and a public debt that represents 140 percent of its GDP.
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A country that respects itself would kick this arrogant lowlife scumbag out.
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1000 000 %
Why is this guy still in our country?
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bribes
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Lol, so Israel didn't give Lebanon refugees? Are you really that much of a Zionist propagandist to forget the thousands of Palestinians?
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I never once see any of your Iranians doing anything to help the Palestinians. Merely you're just attempting to impose your Iranian ideology and use them just as much as Christians. Gigatakia.
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the article is about syrian refugees ya troll not palestinian refugees. Typical iranian troll trying to deflect the discussion when it has nothing to offer or refute other's arguments.
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the giga troll has to defend his masters in damascus and tehran no matter what and at any cost even though it might expose him for the idiot he is.
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That was in Saudi, you stooge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Mecca_girls%27_school_fire
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yes you posted the same claim on another article but under one of your other aliases.
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Saudi mouthpiece: pathological liar.
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so he exposed you and what do you do.... you call him a saudi mouthpiece.
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lulz @flamethrower
lol @the_roar
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How about they go back? Now we have more Iranians and Syrians than actual Lebanese. This "ambassador" is part of a regime that started this hell, very hypocritical.
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Iranians? Shias? If Iranians are Shias because of their faith, then there are no actual Lebanese left. Maronite faith is originally from Syria. Druze faith is from Egypt. And it goes on.
Don't get me started on the Sunnis, half of which were imported by the Ottomans to the Levant to change the demographic balance.
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Lol, all non-pagan religions in Lebanon came from elsewhere, nothing new in that.
Local pagans were converted to Christianity and Islam. None of these religions are indigenous.
As for all Lebanese Shias being from Yemen, yeah, they sure look Yemei today...
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"Don't get me started on the Sunnis, half of which were imported by the Ottomans to the Levant to change the demographic balance."
lol @ the heretic!
can you tell us from where they were imported? Sweden, North America or Brazil ?:)
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Lol, that kind of change take millennia, not centuries.
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Enterprise, from other parts of the Ottoman empire, obviously. This is a well known fact. It was done in Syria too.
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Unlike you mental midgets, it doesn't take me much energy to comment here.
I can do it on a bus, from work, on the can. Swatting flies like you is like playing Tetris.
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You see the Syrian refugees according to this POS is a Lebanese problem and the Lebanese government must look for solutions.
Syrian Ambassador: Lebanon Must Look for Solutions for Displaced Syrians
Lebanon must find a solution to end your miserable life ya terrorist. Take your refugees and put them in your and Assad's palaces!