Statement | Syrian refugees are the responsibility of the UNHCR

Statement | Syrian refugees are the responsibility of the UNHCR

Beirut, 26 October 2022 - During the past eleven years in Lebanon, Syrian refugees have placed their highest hopes on the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as the “guardian” of the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, it is considered as a global organization dedicated to saving lives, protecting rights and building a better future for refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people. Syrian refugees had registered their asylum applications in accordance with the established procedures, but hundreds thousands of asylum applications remained pending under vague and baseless names for many years. عربي Furthermore, it is the Responsibility for determining the status of asylum claims lies with UNHCR, when a country is not a party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and / or when a country does not have a fair and effective national asylum procedure. Lebanon is not a party to the 1951 Convention. In 2019, the situation of Syrian…