"Contacts with Syrian authorities are underway in a bid to return thousands of refugees back to their homes. The issue is imminent," said Ibrahim during the inauguration ceremony of the General Security center in Jdeideh.
He also said that tens more General Security centers will be established specifically to receive Syrian nationals to alleviate the pressure on main centers.
Leb is hosting around 1.5 Syrian refugees while its own population stood at just four million before neighboring Syria's civil war broke out in 2011, sending tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing across the border in search of safety.
Lebanese politicians are divided over whether Leb should coordinate efforts directly with the Syrian government over the return of refugees.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.stresses that Leb will only coordinate with the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
to return the refugees.