Ross Mountain, the U.N. resident Coordinator in Lebanon, has warned that the needs of the region's states, including Lebanon, are growing as result of the war in Syria, hoping that donor countries would assist the country at the upcoming conference in Kuwait.

He also revealed that the International Support Group for Lebanon could meet in Beirut this year.

In an interview with An Nahar daily published on Friday, Mountain said: “The needs and the demands linked to the Syrian crisis, which also include Lebanon, are growing.”

"I visited several capitals … and I am in contact with the embassies here,” he stated. “My message to the donors was clear that we want to see a vision on how to deal with the funding.”

“The donors could provide finding to the (Lebanese) government, through the U.N. Agencies or the World Bank,” Mountain told An Nahar.

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