"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Bassil: Lebanon, not UN, sets refugee policies- Daily Star

BEIRUT: From now on, Lebanon will be setting making refugee policies while others, including the UNHCR, will work according to them and not the other way around, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said Tuesday.
“We are entering a new phase, where cooperation will be according to Lebanon’s policies, and not according to what others decide,” Bassil said as he left a meeting for the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign and Immigration Affairs. “Lebanon is the side that decides and makes its policies, and the others have to adapt to them.”
Bassil’s bold statement came to answer a question about the tension that has been reported between his ministry and the U.N. refugee agency.