Change and Reform Urges Govt. to Address 'Existential Threat' of Refugee Crisis

The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc on Tuesday warned that the Syrian refugee crisis has started to pose an “existential threat” to Lebanon.

“The bloc reiterates that the Syrian refugee presence in Lebanon is a pressing issue that has started to pose an existential threat to Lebanon,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.

“We urgently call on the government to look into, study and discuss the draft solution paper that has been prepared by the foreign minister (Jebran Bassil),” the bloc added.

It also urged the government to “record births and take all the measures that make the registry of births compulsory for Syrian refugees and not a voluntary measure that leads to low registry numbers as is the case today.”