Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Monday that elections of the Economic and Social Council of Lebanon, revived in October after 15 years of suspension, constitute a new achievement for the government.

“The government has placed the reactivation of its institutions at the top of priorities. Electing Charles Arbid as chairperson of the council is an additional government achievement,” said Hariri.

A special envoy to South Korea's new president Moon Jae-in arrived in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese officials, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

The envoy was greeted at the Beirut airport by South Korean Ambassador to Lebanon Young Man Lee and a number of embassy staff and Lebanese Foreign Ministry representative Ziad Riachi, added NNA.

Iran planned to deliver a message to world powers through a controversial visit paid by an Iran-backed Iraqi militant to Lebanon's border purporting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as “grasping control" in the region, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

An unnamed opposition source told the daily that Qais al-Khazali's visit to south Lebanon “is an Iranian message to decision-making circles around the world purporting that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard controls political, security and military decisions in the region.”

Northern Metn MPs Sami Gemayel, Ibrahim Kanaan and Nabil Nicola on Sunday denounced the riots that marred a demo protesting Washington’s decision on Jerusalem near the U.S. embassy in Awkar.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as “regrettable” and “destructive,” urging him to reverse it.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq has announced that the latest statement of the International Support Group for Lebanon has the ability to heal the rift between Lebanon and some Arab states.

A senior Hizbullah official announced Sunday that the response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital should be through “reinforcing the resistance approach across the region.”

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil has called for an Arab popular uprising and for diplomatic, political and economic Arab measures against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Lebanese security forces on Sunday fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators near the U.S. embassy in Awkar as they protested Washington's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Several people were injured by rocks, tear gas, and rubber bullets as security forces arrested around ten protesters who refused to disperse after fierce clashes.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Saturday ordered investigations be run into a footage circulating on social media of an Iran-backed Iraqi militant commander in military uniform touring southern border villages, Hariri's media office said in a statement.

“Video of an Iraqi militia official in military uniform touring southern border villages is in circulation on social media. The video was filmed six days ago and constitutes a flagrant violation of Lebanese laws,” said the statement.