Expectations low for Paris conference on Lebanon

Supporting Lebanon’s neutrality and providing limited funds to deal with the Syrian refugees may be all that the Paris conference achieves.
Syrian families queue to be registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on February 18, 2014 in the Arsal refugee camp in the Lebanese Bekaa valley. More than 130,000 people have been killed since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011, and millions more have been displaced in what UN officials have described as the worst refugee crisis in two decades. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)
Syrian families queue to be registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Arsal refugee camp in the Lebanese Bekaa valley, Feb. 18, 2014. - AFP/Getty Images
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Sami Nader
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In Paris, on March 5-6, a political conference organized by the International Support Group for Lebanon (ISG) will be held. The conference comes in the context of the major effort to support Lebanon, an effort that the ISG launched on Sept. 25, 2013, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

The conference has three stated objectives:

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