Presidency of the Republic’s Information Office, clarified in a statement that “there is no truth to what was stated in a number of media articles issued today about the existence of a link between President Michel Aoun’s raising of the issue of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and the file of the parliamentary elections, or that it is part of the electoral campaigns.”

The Information Office indicated that “these conclusions are baseless, because the issue of the return of the displaced to their country has never been absent from the President of the Republic’s stances, and it was raised again in a meeting held yesterday at Baabda Palace with the ministerial delegation participating in a conference in Brussels on May 9 and 10 dedicated to discussing In the future of the displaced Syrians, with the aim of determining the official Lebanese position on this issue and reporting it to the conferences in Brussels.