Bassil urges Mikati to cancel cabinet decision to allow registration of illegal Syrian students: FPM will act, even if alone

Free Patriotic Movement Head, MP Gebran Bassil, called on the caretaker government and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, to cancel the decision to register illegal Syrian students in Lebanese schools, addressing several inquiries to the caretaker ministers and the participating political forces that approved said decision. Bassil urged all patriots and sovereigns in the country to take action, stressing that 'the movement will act, even if alone,' adding, 'We will not yield, and in the battle of existence we are all soldiers.' His words came in a speech he delivered on the displacement dossier and the decision taken by the government to permit the registration of Syrian students in institutes and schools in Lebanon even if they are not in possession of legal papers Bassil addressed all the Lebanese parties and people by saying: 'Once again, our existence is threatened and we must sound the alarm,' pointing out that 'settlement becomes a fait accompli and the confrontation must take place through action and not through speeches.' He considered that "Interior Minister Bassam al-Mawlawi did an excellent job in his ministry in this regard, and with the procedures that he distributed to the governors and mayors, he set a path for a solution under the headline of illegally present Syrians on Lebanese territory." "We were surprised by the Council of Ministers' issued decision, followed by a circular from the Ministry of Education, allowing Syrian students who do not hold a legal residence card or an identification card issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to register in institutes and schools in Lebanon," Bassil went on. He added: "This decision is by a government that we consider resigned and unchartered, and its decisions that come without the signature of all ministers are illegitimate and illegal." Bassil, thus, called for an immediate "reversal of the decision by the Lebanese government and the Ministry of Education in which they allow illegal Syrians to register in Lebanese institutes and schools." Source: National News Agency - Lebanon