Moussawi: Saudi, Israel, U.S., Europe Seeking to Naturalize Syrians in Lebanon
MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi of Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc warned Sunday that Saudi Arabia, Israel, the U.S. and Europe are “seeking to naturalize Syrian refugees in Lebanon.”
“Saudi tools are trying to sabotage the situation in Lebanon and its sectarian political structure with the aim of returning the issue of partitioning it to the table once again,” Moussawi cautioned.
“Saudi Arabia, the Zionist entity and behind them the U.S. administration are seeking to naturalize Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and the U.S. president's statement at the U.N. about resettlement was not a fleeting word but rather a blatant call for naturalizing Syrian refugees in countries neighboring Syria,” the MP added.
He called on the Lebanese people to “realize that the threat of naturalizing Syrian refugees is not a fictional threat but rather a real one, because this is what the U.S. administration and Europe are working on.”
“Our responsibility lies in seeking to return Syrian refugees to their country, and accordingly we tell our partners in the government, that if they are keen like us on the survival of Lebanon's entity, formula and structure, they have to realize the importance of working on returning Syrian refugees quickly to their country, before their presence turns into a de facto situation,” Moussawi went on to say.
“Everyone can refer to the Palestinian experience,” he added, referring to the continued presence of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon that has been running since 1948.
In his speech at the U.N., Trump said that “for the cost of resettling one refugee in the United States, we can assist more than 10 in their home region.”
“We offer financial assistance to hosting countries in the region, and we support recent agreements of the G20 nations that will seek to host refugees as close to their home countries as possible,” Trump added.
“We seek an approach to refugee resettlement that is designed to help these horribly treated people, and which enables their eventual return to their home countries, to be part of the rebuilding process,” he said.
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