Lebanon to Call for Redistribution of Refugees
Lebanon is expected to participate on Tuesday in a conference of states hosting Syrian refugees in Brussels, the head of the delegation, MP Michel Moussa, said.
Moussa told An Nahar newspaper published on Monday that he will call in his speech for providing Lebanon with promised assistance to confront the refugee crisis and to redistribute the displaced Syrians on countries capable of hosting them.
Lebanon can no longer carry this burden, he said.
The unending misery of the approximately 4 million Syrian refugees scattered around Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and other Arab nations is one significant factor in the rise. With the Syrian civil war in its fifth year, they have little hope of returning home, and for many the situation in exile is worsening. Because of lack of funding, for example, the World Food Program has had to strike hundreds of thousands of refugees off its rolls for monthly vouchers to buy food, and for some others the payment has been reduced to $13 a month.
The desperation of the refugees have led them to Europe to start a new life there.
The European Commission has approved a controversial plan to distribute 160,000 refugees around the continent.
Despite an outpouring of public sympathy for the plight of the refugees, many of whom are from Syria, several eastern European countries have already warned they will oppose any binding quotas on absorbing asylum seekers.
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over 9 years
How many refugees did Iran take?
over 9 years
Hi john from Dahieh
Why should they?
over 9 years
sorry PJ
When bighjon visits Tartous once a year in January, Most Syrians speak to him and tell him that Most Syrians support Assad and want an Alawi president. Also, 95% of Sunnis in Syria want Assad the Alawi to be their president.
over 9 years
How many refugees did Iran make...or take? What about Russia and the US?
There are hundreds of thousands of Syrians living and working in the Gulf already. A lot of them came after 2011.
over 9 years
The best way to end this is to get rid of the Assads, bring in armies from all over the world, (including Russia), to impose a government of national unity and destroy ISIS and Al Qaeda.
over 9 years
And get Hezbollah out of Syria, disarm them and get them integrated in the Lebanese army.
over 9 years
Are you blind machia? Assad is the only one able to hold back the takfiris and recreate stability as there was before the conflict.
Russia too realizes this.
over 9 years
But Assad who did not know how to deal with this popular movement from the very start created this instability and his violent actions allowed foreign interventions and the spread of Al Qaeda and Isis.
He fell in the trap in Lebanon and then again in his own country. His father would not have made these mistakes. He got too close to the Iranians and did not stop their influence and play them the way Assad snr. did.
His people are paying a very heavy price for it.
Looking at Libya, Yemen and Iraq, yes the people got rid of cruel dictators but these dictators created over the years failed societies and the death, destruction and crazy corruption that we are seeing today are the result of years of dictatorships that totally mismanaged their countries. Pinochet was a cruel and bloodthirsty dictator but at least he built a phenomenal economy and excellent institutions in Chile.
over 9 years
It will take years to rebuilt some sort of working system in Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Syria. Meanwhile people will suffer greatly and the world would have to take in millions of refugees.
This is why the world and its armies should intervene in Syria and take it in charge and rebuild a institutions.
The US totally destroyed Iraq because they removed and disbanded all institutions that were under the previous regime. But these institutions were not created by Saddam Hussein but by years of cumulative governments. That was not an "innocent" mistake. The US wanted to dismantle Iraq that is why they invaded in 2003.
over 9 years
But I thought Iran loves Syria. Why don't they transfer the whole population to a suburb of Teheran and while we are talking about suburbs, they can also take all the Hezbollah lovers too.
Hezbollah's own New Dahieh with a ringroad called Khamanei way.
over 9 years
Of course anti muslim. Learn to act like humans and we will tolerate you.
over 9 years
Oh great, the capitalist western countries are tripping over each other to see who could take in the highest number of new slaves coming out of syria.
over 9 years
I see that you did not read Hezbollah's paper apology for publishing such a "new slaves" comment in their editorial page.
I guess you have no shame.
One more point, the whole world is capitalist today especially your beloved Iran, Russia and China.
And I bet you live in the West and if not you would love to live there.
So stop writing rubbish.
over 9 years
he does live in the West just like the rest of the ungrateful thugs.
over 9 years
ex-fpm, where i live need not prohibit me from speaking my opinion. You should be asking why more bombs have been dropped on Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan by western countries than all of the first and second world wars combined. Perhaps you will begin to figure out why there is a refugee or slave problem coming out of the middle east. I dont even blame the people of the west, only their zionist stooge leaders.
over 9 years
Machia, you are right, China, Russia and Iran, but it is not their capitalist bombs falling over the middle east creating these refugees.
over 9 years
you know what is strange cityboy.... I was thinking the same thing exactly, the same!!!! The similarities between us are not just coincidences anymore. I mean we are both shiaa extremists who pretend to be secular and we both are members of the shia resistance, both paid to post, both are sectarian to the bone, both troll and make up accounts to insult people and then pretend we are against such practices.... I hope just because we are similar in all the above ways people don't think we are the same poster.
over 9 years
Then you need to take back control of your governments. Your democracy in Europe is a sham. You have no control over what your governments do. I have nothing against the white christian race, in fact i would like europe to remain like that, different cultures in different lands is a beautiful thing, that is all being lost, intentionally so by the way.
How many refugees did the gulf countries take?