British PM Cameron visits Syria refugees in Lebanon

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday toured a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon on a one-day visit to discuss the refugee crisis gripping the Middle East and Europe.

The trip came as Cameron appointed a minister to oversee the promised resettlement in Britain of 20,000 Syrian refugees from Middle East camps over the next five years.

The British premier met refugees at a camp outside the town of <g data-gr-id="16">Terbol</g> in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon, an AFP correspondent reported.

Lebanon hosts more than 1.1 million Syrian refugees, many of whom live in informal tented settlements in the arid valley.

Cameron said he wanted “to see for <g data-gr-id="17">myself</g> and to hear for myself stories of refugees and what they need”.

“I’m at a refugee camp in Lebanon, hearing some heartbreaking stories,” he tweeted. “British aid is doing so much to help.” He said Britain was already the second largest donor to Syrian refugee camps in the region.