Palestinian president to visit Lebanon
AFP
BEIRUT - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will make a brief visit to Lebanon next week for talks with President Michel Sleiman on relations and the plight of Palestinian refugees, officials said on Thursday.
A Lebanese official who did not wish to be identified told AFP that during Monday's visit Abbas will also discuss the Middle East peace process and the rebuilding of a refugee camp in northern Lebanon destroyed in 2007.
Mahmud Abbas
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) lists almost 400,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
But Lebanese and Palestinian officials say the actual number resident in Lebanon may be as low as 250,000 because UNRWA does not strike off its lists refugees who have gone abroad.
Most of those that remain live in 12 camps across the country.
One of the camps, Nahr al-Bared, was destroyed in 2007 in fierce battles between an Al-Qaeda-inspired group and the Lebanese army.
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