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Arab League Decides to Send Team to Syria Neighbors as Lebanon Asks for $180mn in Aid for Refugees
[An Nahar] Leb appealed on Sunday for $180 million from Arab countries
They'll make promises, my dears. Lots and lots of promises.
to help it meet the Syrian refugee influx
None of whom are Palestinians, who have made themselves unwelcome everywhere.
that has threatened to bring the number of the displaced to 420,000 in June, as the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
decided to send a team to Syria's neighboring countries to assess the status of refugees ahead of a donor conference in Kuwait on January 30.

Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis agreed to send a team to Leb, Jordan and Iraq "to assess the situation of Syrian refugees on the ground," the vaporous Arab League said.

The delegation is to work out the amount of aid required and present its findings to a donor conference hosted by Kuwait on January 30, the League added.

During the meeting, Leb appealed for $180 million to help around 200,000 Syrians and around 10,000 Paleostinians who have escaped the fighting between rebels seeking to topple Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
and government troops.

"The Lebanese government hopes for Arab support to overcome the crisis," Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour said during an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo.

The number of refugees could rise from 30,000 to 40,000 displaced Syrian and Paleostinian each month and could reach 420,000 next June, he said.
Posted by: Fred 2013-01-14
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