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Lebanon wants to establish military cooperation with Russia due to the plans to re-equip its army, Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri said during talks with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Tass agency reported.

"We continue re-equipping the Lebanese army and would like to establish military cooperation with your country in this regard," he said, as quoted by the source.

The Lebanese prime minister noted that his country "is really suffering from numerous problems, one of which is terrorism. However, the authorities are winning in the fights against terrorists, but Lebanon still needs the help of friends like Russia." He added that many problems are connected with the presence of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. "We believe that if political settlement is achieved in Syria, it should include, among other things, return of the Syrian refugees to their homes - I mean here not only refugees staying in Lebanon, but across the whole world," Saad Hariri noted.