Arab foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in Cairo Sunday at the Arab League headquarters to discuss the issue of Syrian refugees displaced in Lebanon, who are putting pressure on the country’s economy, according to the league website.
About 175,000 displaced Syrians have officially fled to Lebanon since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis in March 2011, and another unofficial 75,000 have also entered the country.
The Lebanese prime minister decided Thursday to continue receiving displaced Syrians, and called for US$300 million from Arab and foreign countries to be able to meet their needs.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees had recently announced that there are more than half a million displaced Syrians in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and North Africa.
