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Lebanon to identify real Syrian refugees

Xinhua, February 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Leban's foreign minister stressed Wednesday that the country should differentiate the real refugees from those who moved to Lebanon for economic reasons, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

"Serious measures should be swiftly adopted in an attempt to alleviate the Lebanese burden and provide Syrians with honorable returns," Lebanese Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Minister Gebran Bassil said.

Bassil pointed that seeing the refugees back to their homeland is the best solution.

"Despite our love for the Syrian people, Lebanon is suffering a serious refugee crisis," he said, referring to a plan which suggested Syrian refugees return to their country gradually.

According to the United Nations Higher Commission for Refugees, Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million Syrians who have fled their war-torn country since the protest against President Bashar Assad started. Endit