Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil says his country will never agree to grant Lebanese citizenship to so-called “Palestinian refugees", in response to reports that the US government would like the countries hosting the “refugees” to grant them citizenship.
"Even if the entire world agrees to naturalization, we will never agree to that, and just as we defeated Israel by removing its occupation [from Lebanon in 2000], we will defeat it with regard to the naturalization plan and the right of return that will remain sacred," Bassil said in an interview with Lebanese newspaper Al Joumhouria.
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