An evening meeting held in Ain el-Tineh on Sunday between several political figures, failed to reach decisive results as for an agreement on a new parliamentary electoral law, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

As hundreds of experts convened this week in Beirut to discuss conflict medicine at the Middle East Medical Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned of the long-term consequences that protracted crises might have on health systems.

Hizbullah handed over Friday to the Lebanese army its military posts in the outskirts of the eastern border towns of Tufail, Brital, Ham and Maaraboun, Hizbullah's al-Manar TV said.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Thursday that Israel's decision to build a wall along Lebanon's border is an acknowledgment of its “defeat,” as he declared that Hizbullah will end its military presence on Lebanon's eastern border with Syria.

President Michel Aoun announced Tuesday that his Free Patriotic Movement's stance on the electoral law “is not sectarian,” while stressing that a proportional representation system should have “restraints” or else it would be equivalent to a sudden abolition of political sectarianism.

President Michel Aoun held talks with Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday at the Baabda Palace, where talks focused on the controversial electoral law on the eve of a cabinet meeting scheduled the next day, and ahead of a ministerial committee meeting in the afternoon.

“Negative atmospheres can not help establish the grounds for an agreement on an election law,” stressed Hariri, pointing out that he would consider his government “unsuccessful” shall it fail at devising a new law.

Speaker Nabih Berri indirectly described a tender to lease power generating vessels launched by Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil as “suspicious.”

“A tender to lease power-generating vessels brings gains to pockets,” LBCI quoted the Speaker as saying.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed on Tuesday that it is necessary to develop solutions, projects and programs to address problems in the country, pointing out that the northern city of Tripoli “has a historic opportunity ahead that we won't allow anyone to spoil.”

Hariri's comments came at the opening of the Development Conference in Tripoli at the Grand Serial, organized by the Safadi Foundation under the title “From Tripoli to all of Lebanon - Progress and Development".

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said the term of President Michel Aoun has engaged itself in tedious unfulfilled pledges, pointing out that Speaker Nabih Berri will always be his ally, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

“The mandate (of Aoun) has engaged itself into the whirlpool of the electoral law and was in a hurry to complete the qualifying law format,” Jumblat told the daily in an interview.

A ministerial committee tasked with studying a new electoral law for the parliamentary elections will convene on Tuesday, amid reports denying that Prime Minister Saad Hariri has a “rescue initiative” up his sleeve, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

The daily said the overall picture is pessimistic, unless a promising outcome emerges from the committee meeting which will be chaired by Hariri at the Grand Serail and will discuss a voting system draft.