National News Agency – Geagea discussed with the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Lebanon the issue of Syrian asylum

NNA – The head of the “Lebanese Forces” party, Samir Geagea, met in Maarab with the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Lebanon, Imran Riza, accompanied by political advisor Pierre Daher, in the presence of the head of the foreign relations apparatus, former minister Richard Kouyoumjian, and member of the Central Council, Marc Saad.

After the meeting discussed developments on the Lebanese and regional arenas, Geagea stressed that Lebanon “has endured a lot in order to rescue and shelter the Syrian people, but the situation today is no longer tolerable, and we must work together quickly, to move from organizing the survival of the displaced to organizing their return.”

And stressing that “Lebanon is a country of transit and not of asylum, according to an agreement signed with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2003,” the “chief of forces” called on the international community to “build on recent regional developments in order to extricate Lebanon from this escalating crisis, given that the issue has gone beyond The economic or humanitarian concept or the provision of aid has turned into a sovereign existential problem, and its solution has become the first priority, in order to prevent its exacerbation and to preserve the stability of the country on the one hand and the region on the other.

========== L.K