Aoun: Refugee Crisis Solution More Urgent than Ever
President Michel Aoun on Friday called for an urgent solution to Lebanon's Syrian refugee crisis.
“The refugees definitely want to return to their country to live in it in dignity instead of staying in encampments and gatherings,” Aoun said in a speech at a conference for the Rotary International organization at Beirut's Phoenicia Hotel.
“You are an organization that is active internationally with a presence in more than 200 countries and we hope you will carry our voice and suffering and the voice and suffering of the refugees,” the president said.
“The refugee crisis burden has become exhausting for us and for the refugees themselves and the need for a solution has become more urgent than ever,” Aoun urged.
Lebanon, a country of four million, hosts around a million Syrians who have sought refuge from the war raging in their neighboring homeland since 2011.
Many live in informal tented settlements in the country's east and struggle to stay warm in the winter.
Source: Naharnet
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