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David Cameron visits Beirut amid refugee crisis: Lebanon government source
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Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday for a one-day visit to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis gripping the Middle East and Europe, a Lebanese government source said.Cameron was to visit a refugee camp in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, the source said.
Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Beirut on Monday for a one-day visit to discuss the Syrian refugee crisis gripping the Middle East and Europe, a Lebanese government source said.Cameron was to visit a refugee camp in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, the source said.
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The country hosts more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees.He was also due to hold talks on the refugee crisis with his Lebanese counterpart Tammam Salam.
Last week, Cameron announced that Britain would take in 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years from countries neighbouring war-torn Syria.
Cameron has been under pressure internationally and domestically to address the refugee crisis, and vowed last week to "help to stabilise countries where the refugees are coming from".
Britain has accepted 216 Syrian refugees over the past year and granted asylum to almost 5,000 Syrians since the conflict broke out in 2011 far fewer than other European countries like France, Germany and Sweden.
More than four million Syrians have fled abroad.
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