EU vows to provide needed support for secure return of Syrian refugees

The visiting EU foreign minister said on Monday that the EU will provide the needed political and economic support to guarantee a secure return for Syrian refugees to their homeland, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.

"Whenever I meet with Syrian refugees, I hear from them about their willingness to return to their country under safe conditions," said Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The EU will continue to solve the refugee crisis in a diplomatic way, Mogherini added.

She made the remarks came during a joint press conference with Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil in the capital Beirut.

Earlier in the day, Mogherini arrived in Lebanon to open a new headquarters in Beirut on the occasion of the EU's 40 years of peace-keeping operation in the country.