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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon Vows To Keep Borders Open To Syria Refugees
2013-07-11
[AnNahar] Leb vowed Wednesday to keep its borders open to Syrian refugees as the U.N. Security Council called for "unprecedented" international help for the country.
A lovely sentiment by the Lebanese. However, the unprecedented help is likely to be very little, in this time of ever greater needs and worldwide depression recession.
With some estimates of 1.2 million Syrians now in Leb, the country's U.N. ambassador Nawaf Salam said the government may have to consider opening camps.

He added that the country would not close its frontier but that it desperately needs international assistance.

"Leb will not close its borders. Leb will not turn back any refugee, Leb will continue to provide assistance to all Syrian refugees, Salam told news hounds after the Security Council met to adopt a statement on Leb.

"But let's also be clear that Leb alone cannot cope with the burden of the refugee crisis. Leb needs international support, needs concrete international help to cope with this growing problem."
And a pony. Do not forget the pony.
Leb and Jordan say they cannot cope with the fallout from the 26-month-old Syria war and have called for an international conference on the humanitarian crisis.
Manolo! Call the caterers -- we have a pointless conference to plan!
The United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
 says there are about 600,000 refugees registered in Leb. But Salam said there are more than one million Syrians in the country and think tanks such as the Beirut Institute give a figure of 1.2 million.

A Security Council statement proposed by La Belle France called for "strong, coordinated international support for Leb to help it continue to withstand the multiple current challenges to its security and stability."

The Security Council statement also said there should be international help for the Lebanese Armed Forces to help police the border and made a new appeal for all sides in the country to stay out of the Syria conflict.

But the council said Leb needs "assistance on an unprecedented scale" to confront its refugee crisis.

A special fund set up by the United Nations has received only a fraction of the amount appealed for.

"This country is threatened to be engulfed into the Syrian crisis," said La Belle France's U.N. ambassador Gerard Araud.

"It is nearly a miracle that this country has succeeded to resist the pressures and tensions stemming from the Syrian crisis."
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Palestinians are not enough for them?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-07-11 01:32  

#1  Why not? They're open to everybody else.
Posted by: Skidmark   2013-07-11 00:10  

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