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Derbas: Lebanon Implementing Decision on Stopping Refugee Flow | |
2014-06-13 | |
In remarks to An Nahar daily published on Thursday, Derbas said he informed U.N.'s refugee agency, UNHCR, about the move. "Leb will accept the political asylum that only results from the fighting on the Lebanese-Syrian border," he stressed. Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq has announced that displaced Syrians registered with the UNHCR should not return home as of June 1, warning they will lose their refugee status. This measure is based on the concern about security in Leb and relations between the refugees and Lebanese citizens in areas hosting them and to prevent any friction, he said in a statement. More than 1 million of Syrians are in Leb, leaving the country, home to 4.5 million people, struggling to cope with the massive influx of refugees. The Syrian conflict started in March 2011 as largely peaceful protests against Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's rule that deteriorated into civil war. The fighting has uprooted 9 million people from their homes, with over 6 million Syrians seeking shelter in safer parts of the country and at least 2.7 million fleeing to neighboring countries. | |
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