Ministerial delegation to visit Syria over refugee repatriation
Minister of Social Affairs Hector Hajjar and Minister of the Displaced Issam Sharafeddine will soon visit Damascus to meet with their Syrian counterparts over the repatriation of the Syrian refugees, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Monday.
It added that Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, who had said he would not head the ministerial delegation to Syria, has called his Syrian counterpart, Faisal al-Miqdad, and agreed with him to meet soon.
Sharafeddine blamed Bou Habib for wasting more than a month before announcing that he would not be able to head the Lebanese delegation.
In remarks published Monday in Asharq al-Awsat, Sharafeddine said Bou Habib is responsible for the long delay in setting a date for the visit.
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