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| David Cameron visits Lebanese refugee camp | |
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| David Cameron has visited a Lebanese refugee camp amid the crisis triggered by war in neighbouring Syria. | David Cameron has visited a Lebanese refugee camp amid the crisis triggered by war in neighbouring Syria. |
| Mr Cameron, who is making his first visit to Lebanon as prime minister, met a family in a camp in the Bekaa Valley who are due to be flown to the UK. | Mr Cameron, who is making his first visit to Lebanon as prime minister, met a family in a camp in the Bekaa Valley who are due to be flown to the UK. |
| He said: "I wanted to come here to see for myself and to hear for myself stories of refugees." | |
| The UK will accept up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, Mr Cameron told MPs earlier this month. | The UK will accept up to 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years, Mr Cameron told MPs earlier this month. |
| He has appointed Richard Harrington as minister for Syrian refugees to ensure the arrivals are given a "warm welcome" in the UK. | |
| "I want to focus on how we help Syrian refugees here in Lebanon, in Jordan, how we make sure we discourage people from making this dangerous journey to Europe but instead we take people from these camps and we make them welcome in the United Kingdom, in our country," Mr Cameron said. | |
| "We make sure there are homes for them to go to, schools for their children, a warm welcome in Britain." | |
| Lebanon is to receive £29m of the additional £100m in UK aid for Syria and surrounding countries announced by the prime minister earlier this month. | |
| This will pay for food packages for thousands of refugees, as well as clean water, blankets, stoves, mattresses, counselling support and play areas for children. | |
| This country is host to 1.1 million Syrian refugees, which is more than a quarter of Lebanon's population. | |
| BBC deputy political editor James Landale said Mr Cameron had been "stung" by accusations that the UK was not doing enough to help relieve Europe's refugee crisis, so he had travelled to Lebanon to highlight the British aid supporting refugees in the region. | |
| The prime minister's visit comes as European Union interior ministers are meeting in Brussels to talk about the thousands of migrants arriving from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
| They are due to discuss plans to spread 160,000 asylum seekers across 23 EU states through mandatory quotas. |