Lebanese Prime Minister, Tammam Salam, met on Monday with German chancellor, Angela Merkel, at the sidelines of the World Humanitarian Summit, which is currently taking place in Istanbul, Turkey.

In a an address he had made earlier this morning during a breakfast banquette held in honor of the participating delegations, Salam reiterated Lebanon‘s utter refusal to naturalize Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

„Our country cannot, as per the Lebanese constitution, approve of or accept any act of integrating, naturalizing or even resettling Syrians,“ the Prime Minister stressed.