border management security, prevention of movement, tackling smuggling, and it does not deal with some of the other components which are crucial to move forward and which is, indeed, processing asylum claims very quickly so that if people cannot stay, you can return them, and working together with their countries to make sure that people can effectively be returned, because that is a big problem in the uk but also in other parts of europe. i uk but also in other parts of euro e. ., , uk but also in other parts of euroe. .,, ., ., uk but also in other parts of euroe. ., ., ., . ,., uk but also in other parts of euroe. ., ., ., ., europe. i was going to ask you about other arts europe. i was going to ask you about other parts of europe. i was going to ask you about other parts of europe. europe. i was going to ask you about other parts of europe. the europe. i was going to ask you about other parts of europe. the countries| other parts of europe. the countries like france or 6erman
in 2015, you saw similar two year, three year waits. that changed with the syrian rivals back in 2015 the 2016, and we see more fast tracking of those, for example, who are seen by the authorities, or assessed by the authorities as having less grounds or less chance of getting protection. so you bring those up front to the queue and you make sure you have sufficient staff also to then process those, because research shows it is really crucial that you return people within one year of them arriving. otherwise it becomes very hard to achieve that. and finally, a question about albania, because we know there has been a significant rise in the number of albanians trying to reach the uk. presumably the uk we need some strategy specifically to look at that? yes, working together with the albanian government will be crucial. a few years ago, there was a rise also of arrivals in germany,
in the mediterranean sea. now, that could mean a massive windfall in the future for lebanon, but why would the lebanese people believe that their government is capable of spending that money responsibly and using it to save the economy? well, to start with, yes, stephen, this is this is absolutely excellent news that we received today. it has not been officially announced yet by both governments, but i have received news that we are in the final hours of getting this official announcement out. this is a big game changer. lebanon will bejoining the oil and gas club, which means bringing back confidence to the country, bringing back, you know, fast tracking, potentially an imf agreement, potentially. minister, with respect, it doesn t automatically bring
this is a big game changer. lebanon will bejoining the oil and gas club, which means bringing back confidence to the country, bringing back, you know, fast tracking, potentially an imf agreement, potentially. minister, with respect, it doesn t automatically bring confidence back to lebanon. it only brings confidence. no, no, no. ..if the imf and your people believe that your government will behave responsibly with this new source of revenue. we are banking. we are banking, stephen, on the fact that once the imf agreement is there, the imf will hold the lebanese government accountable. the reason we are seeking an imf deal is because we know that we need somebody to be on top of this government to put a work scope and to audit every three months how we re going to spend our monies. this is why we are seeking an imf work plan, not because the imf is only