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Thursday 23 Jul 2015 - 15:31 Makkah mean time-7-10-1436
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Beirut, (IINA) - Lebanon will receive $450 million from an international donors conference that was held in Kuwait in April to help aid Syrian refugees, The Lebanese Daily Star reported on Thursday.
Lebanese Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas told An-Nahar newspaper that U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ross Mountain informed him on Wednesday of the share Lebanon will receive, of which only 37 percent will go to the Lebanese state. The remaining 63 percent of the $450 donation will be received by NGOs and other groups involved in the humanitarian response to the refugee crisis.
"Lebanon will not be able to receive any of the pledged money until the paralyzed Cabinet approves them as grants," the minister explained.
International donors pledged in April $3.8 billion in aid for Syrians affected by the ongoing war at a donors conference in Kuwait.
Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam said during the conference that his government had prepared a plan, with a cost “amounting to over $1 billion,” in order to deal with the refugee crisis in Lebanon.
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