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Monday 14 Sep 2015 - 11:56 Makkah mean time-1-12-1436
 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (IINA) - British Prime Minister David Cameron, who is making his first visit to Lebanon as prime minister, visited a Lebanese refugee camp amid the crisis triggered by war in neighbouring Syria.
During the visit, the prime minister met members of a family in a camp in the Bekaa Valley who are due to be flown to the UK, BBC reported.
He said: "I wanted to come here to see for myself and to hear for myself stories of refugees."
"I want to focus on how we help Syrian refugees here in Lebanon, in Jordan, how we make sure we discourage people from making this dangerous journey to Europe but instead we take people from these camps and we make them welcome to the United Kingdom, our country," Cameron said.
"We make sure there are homes for them to go to, schools for their children, a warm welcome in Britain."
The prime minister's visit comes as European Union interior ministers are meeting in Brussels to talk about the thousands of migrants arriving from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
They are due to discuss plans to spread 160,000 asylum seekers across 23 EU states through mandatory quotas.
It is worth to mention that the UK will accept up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, according to what Cameron told MPs earlier this month.
He has appointed Richard Harrington as minister for Syrian refugees to ensure the arrivals are given a "warm welcome" in the UK.
Lebanon is to receive £29 million of the additional £100 million in UK aid for Syria and surrounding countries announced by the prime minister earlier this month.
This will pay for food packages for thousands of refugees, as well as clean water, blankets, stoves, mattresses, counselling support and play areas for children.
SM/IINA
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