Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam said in a televised interview “We will not accept the integration of displaced people in Lebanon. The priority is to repatriate them.”
“The United Nations meetings have not made any breakthroughs in solving the Syrian crisis,” he said, stressing that “Lebanon is among the most concerned sides in terms of resolving the Syrian crisis.”
The Premier pointed out that “Lebanon receives about 1.5 million Syrian refugees,” thus urging “infrastructural aid through international support, because the assistance that is being delivered is limited compared with the number of refugees in Lebanon.”
He also listed the accumulated repercussions of the non-election of a President of the Republic, highlighting the semi-paralysis in the legislative authority, and stressing that this imbalance caused by the presidential vacancy would lead Lebanon into total collapse.
“In 1989, there was the Taif agreement. But now, amid lack of stability in the region and the world, who will be at our rescue?” he wondered.
Commenting on his meeting with French President Francois Hollande, Salam explained that “it came as a follow-up to meetings held in the past. We discussed the possibility of a get-together for the group of international support for Lebanon, which used to be held annually, but we preferred to postpone this matter.”
“This meeting will be held in Paris between the months of November and December,” he added, noting that “it will require consultations between the French and the other parties in order to make of the meeting a success.”
Salam finally assured that “the security situation in Lebanon is under control,” pointing out that the security forces are working hard to absorb any tension and prevent security-related repercussions.
Source: NNA
