Prime Minister Tammam Salam of Lebanon warned yesterday that his country was in "serious danger" to the point of facing collapse as a result of the ongoing rush of Syrian refugees, the Jewish Press website reports today (September 20, 2016).
Speaking in New York at the 71st session of the United Nations General Asembly (UNGA) on the global refugee crisis, Salam said: "My country is in serious danger. What the Lebanese have done by harboring one million and a half Syrians for a population of four million is unprecedented."
Salam insisted that the UN "draft within three months a detailed logistical mapping of the return in safety and dignity of the Syrians now in Lebanon to Syria..."
The Lebanese government chose not to establish camps for Syrian citizens fleeing the civil war into Lebanon, and they have settled instead throughout the country.
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