Lebanon to stop influx of Syrian refugees

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Syrian refugees, fleeing the recent fighting
Syrian refugees, fleeing the recent fighting. Lebanon decided to stop allowing the entry of Syrian refugees into the country except for humanitarian reasons ,

Lebanon decided to stop allowing the entry of Syrian refugees into the country except for humanitarian reasons , Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas said in remarks published Saturday in the Al-Akhbar daily .

“Lebanon is no longer officially receiving any Syrian refugees,” Derbas was quoted as telling the daily

“Those who try to cross the Syrian-Lebanese border will be questioned and should have a humanitarian reason for their entry. This will be decided by the Interior and Social Affairs ministries.”

Ministerial committee

“These are measures that were agreed to in the ministerial committee and have received the preliminary agreement of the Lebanese government, and we have stopped the influx.” Derbas said

The ministerial committee tasked with following up on the Syrian refugee crisis has made several recommendations to stop the influx of refugees, measures that the government has adopted.

Among them is stripping Syrians from their refugee status if they return home

“We have also informed the refugee agency that we can no longer receive any more (refugees) and the government has also asked the refugee agency to remove the name of any Syrian who returns to Syria and comes back,” Derbas said, referring to measures taken by the government.

According to media reports even Syrians who are employed in Lebanon are finding it extremely difficult to return after they go back for a visit.

Other measures include calling on donor countries to help Lebanon financially cope with the overwhelming number of refugees and to relocate some of the 1.3 million residing in the country.

Refugees from Syria  now constitute a staggering one third of Lebanon  population of 4.5 million people.

 

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13 responses to “Lebanon to stop influx of Syrian refugees”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar

    Good. Too late, obviously. But good. Too bad ‘reality’ had to set in.

    1. definitely too late, 1.5 million people is a huge overload for even bigger nations.
      the thing is, now that Lebanon can’t hold any more refuges, where will they go?
      might be Turkey but my bet is that another refugee city is going to emerge in Jordan.
      either way, that’s going to be a 3rd winter for them and it only gets harder.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar

        Jordan at least had some foresight, and opened to the UN right away.
        Lebanon now has ‘internal refugees’ – it’s own people – at least 300,000 under a poverty-line and mostly because they lost their jobs – to cheaper labour.
        But you can see that line .. “Lebanon is no longer officially receiving …”
        There was nothing ‘official’ about many of them in the first year … what’s ‘official’ now?? Who (or which sect) is deciding ‘official’?

        1. you mis read it- it doesn’t say there is official decision to not accept them but instead “officially” no one enters Lebanon. the truth is that the borders are open to all and “unofficial”,faceless,unregistered refuges can and will keep getting in

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar

            Yah … ok Doron … officially not offical. :-))
            The three-decker family there (wife 1 on the ground) seems to be set up for any parking-lot anyway.

          2. which is probably where they’ll end up..
            it’s against everything i believe in but i have to side with the Turks. the best possible solution is to have safe zones inside Syria for refuges.
            it will not help the refuges themselves but it will help containing the problem withing Syria’s borders

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