Lebanese PM urges world help to cope with refugee influx
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Lebanon's prime minister is appealing to the international community to invest in the country's infrastructure and educational system to help alleviate the enormous burden of hosting more than a million Syrian refugees.
Speaking to a group of journalists ahead of the April 5 conference in Brussels on supporting the future of Syria, Hariri says Lebanon has reached breaking point.
He says he will present a comprehensive plan to deal with the burden of Syrian displacement in Brussels and ask for international support.
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"The international community has to understand that Lebanon cannot pay the price of the unresolved conflict in Syria," he said Friday.
Lebanon has taken in some 1.2 million Syrian refugees — the equivalent of one-fourth of its own population.
"Today Lebanon is a big refugee camp," Hariri said.