Outgoing Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali stressed that international powers are playing the card of Syrian refugees against Lebanon and Syria.

In an interview with Al-Manar on Tuesday night, said that the international powers want to keep this card in order to press the Syrian government as well as to play over the Lebanese security and economy.

“The blockade on Syria as well as the presence of occupation forces and their control of Syria’s oil and wheat… all these are plans set by the West,” the Syrian ambassador told Panorama Today at the end of his diplomatic mission in Lebanon.

Talking about the Syrian refugees, the Syrian diplomat said that the ball in the court of the donor states, calling on Lebanese government to take courage decisions and press these states along with the international organizations in a bid to get the refugees back home.

Source: Al-Manar English Website