Visit of an EP Delegation of the Committee on Civil Liberties Justice and Home affairs (LIBE ) to Beirut, in Lebanon. Visit to UNHCR headquarters and meeting with Rashed DERBAS, Minister of Social Affairs. Extracts from the press point by Rashed DERBAS, Minister of Social Affairs and by Claude MORAES (S&amp;D,GB), Chair of the EP LIBE Committee

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EU - Lebanon (T)

Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

MORAES, Claude (S&D, UK)

EP delegation

refugee settlement

Beirut

DERBAS, Rashed (LB)

Lebanon

LIBE Delegation to Lebanon: visit to UNHCR headquarters, meeting with Rashed DERBAS, Lebanese Minister of Social Affairs and extracts from the press point

Establishing shots Beirut (4 shots), Lebanon

Exterior and interior UNHCR Headquarters, Beirut (8 shots)

Arrival of the LIBE delegation at the UNHCR Headquarters

Round table of the delegation meeting with UNHCR Deputy-Representative, Jean Nicolas BEUZE and Angela MURRU, Senior Resettlement Officer (11 shots)

Exterior of the Ministry of Social Affairs

<p>Arrival of the LIBE delegation at the Ministry of Social Affairs and handshake</p>  <p>Between Claude MORAES, Head of delegation and LIBE Chair, meeting with Rashed DERBAS, Minister of Social Affairs</p>

Round table of meeting with Rashed DERBAS, Minister of Social Affairs (3 shots)

SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Rashed DEBRAS, Minister of Social Affairs, Lebanon, The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon is 1,2 million according to UNHCR, but the real number is 1,5 million. We also have 0, 5 million other refugees, Palestinians and other nationalities. All in all 2 million refugees, compared to a Lebanese population of 4,5 million.

SOUNDBITE (English), Claude MORAES (S&amp;D, UK), Head of delegation and LIBE Chair, Our responsibility here is for the Members of the LIBE Committee to better understand the situation in Lebanon. But also to understand as you said that the EU, after discussions with ambassadors and others, has a major humanitarian and development role, but also that we as legislators have a future role in resettlement and relocation, and all the key elements which will lead into ensuring that you can manage what is a major local humanitarian crisis which is visiting in your country.