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Thursday 30 Apr 2015 - 11:18 Makkah mean time-11-7-1436
PM Tammam Salam received Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lapo Pistelli (Google image)
Beirut, (IINA) - Europe should learn a lesson from Lebanon’s method of handling the mass influx of Syrian refugees, a visiting Italian minister said, after meeting Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil here on Wednesday, Lebanese Daily Star reported.
“We highly value the way Lebanese institutions have dealt with the refugee crisis,” Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli said in a statement released by Bassil’s media office. “It is stunning and it has impressed the entire world and I think that Europe should learn a lesson from Lebanon.”
Pistelli’s two-day visit seeks to assist Lebanon in managing the “unbelievable and unprecedented” strain imposed by the neighboring Syrian crisis, he said. “Lebanon gives us a lesson on how a small state can bear large responsibilities.”
Pistelli, who held talks with Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri earlier Wednesday, also visited Syrian refugees in the northern district of Koura, and inspected renovation works currently underway.
The Italian official noted that his visit seeks to provide aid programs to NGOs in the Bekaa Valley, south Lebanon and the north, also to provide military assistance and training to the Lebanese Army.
SM/IINA
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