During a meeting with the head of the Free Patriotic Movement in Jezzine, Gebran Bassil, Aoun considered that the entry of Syrians into his country was an international conspiracy against Lebanon as part of what he described as the “big game”.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun considered that countries pressured Lebanon to receive Syrian refugees fleeing the war in their country. During a meeting with the head of the Free Patriotic Movement in Jezzine, Gebran Bassil, Aoun considered that the entry of the Syrians into his country was an international conspiracy against Lebanon as part of what he described as the “big game”.
Aoun pointed out that a European ambassador asked the Lebanese authorities to guard the beaches, to prevent the Syrians from leaving Lebanon and resorting to Europe, criticizing the European side for confirming the presence of the Syrians in Lebanon.
Aoun said, “I asked a question in the past to one of the female ambassadors, that you asked them to be guards of the beaches, so that the Syrians would not go out and seek refuge in Europe, but why are you working to install them with us?”
Aoun considered that the Syrian refugee is a “security displaced” and not a political one, and said that the Syrian is “a security, not a political displaced person, but countries force us to think that the politically displaced is like the security displaced, and this is a brazen lie,” as he put it.
Aoun also considered that the reason for the Syrians’ stay in Lebanon was to keep them as a fighting element against the Syrian regime, and as an electoral element against President Bashar al-Assad.
