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Lebanese Minister Reiterates Demand for Resettlement of Arab Refugees

August 24, 1959
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For the second time in ten days, a member of the Lebanese Cabinet has declared openly that his government wants the Arab refugees from Palestine resettled in Arab countries that “have sufficient land for their agricultural employment.”

The statement, according to today’s Jordanian press, received here, was made at Beirut by Lebanon’s Minister of Labor Pierre Jumeil. Mr. Jumeil is the leader of the Christian Party in Lebanon.

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