and present it to the parliament for the vote of confidence or reject it .
According to speaker Berri's sources , he plans to hold an open session starting Friday and may continue till Monday to debate the Ministerial Policy Statement before the vote of confidence. The sessions will be broadcast live on national TV
The other focus will be the summit in Damascus between President Suleiman and his Syrian counterpart > It was reported yesterday that Suleiman will be accompanied by a ministerial delegation and the summit could take place either Tuesday or Wednesday
Sunday
11:41 Ghaleb Abu Zeinab , a member of Hezbollah's Political Council who is responsible for coordination with the Ministry of Communications has denied that Hezbollah has formally requested the Communications Minister Gibran Bassil to have all telephone numbers of all party officials outside the control of the state agencies including the organs of the ministry of telecommunications . He was denying Earlier reports of al Mustaqbal . Bassil is a member of FPM , which is headed by Gen Michel Aoun, who is allied with Hezbollah.
11:30 Former president Amine Gemayel : we reject any arms or armed force outside the constitutional authorities of the country ( army and security forces ) . The kataeb party ( Pahalnage ) is not seeking any additional ministerial posts or parliamentary seats . There are attempts in the ministerial policy statement to take Lebanon into unknown territory but these attempts will fail.
11:13 president Assad and his Iranian counterpart Ahmadinejad are discussing the situation in Lebanon and the region during their meeting in Tehran
11:12 MP Mustapha Alloush : The stage following the adoption of the ministerial policy statement will deal with the national security appointments
10:54 MP Marwan Hamade: I confirm the predictions of Lebanese Forces chief Dr Samir Geagea regarding the 2009 elections . The March 14 alliance will be the big winner and will mark the end of the 70 % claim . General Aoun has been claiming that he has 70 % of the Christian vote , but according to observers that may have been the case before his alliance with Hezbollah and now this claim is wishful thinking on the part of Aoun.
10:49 Editor in chief of OTV Jean Aziz accused some members of the cabinet of handing over to the Syrian authorities during the Syrian occupation several Lebanese and he said he has the documents to prove these allegations
10:16 Patriarch Sfeir asks during the Sunday mass " How would their conscious allow them to create obstacles in the face of the government and let the citizens of the country suffer so much ". He was referring to the politicians that obstructed the formation of the government and those that delayed the issuance of the ministerial policy statement because of their insistence of including the role of the resistance ( Hezbollah) in the statement
10:15 Marouni : we confirm our commitment for diplomatic relatiosn with Syria, demarcation of the borders resolving the issue of the missing Lebanese and those in Syrian jails and the future battle is the 2009 elections and I will be a candidate of the Kataeb party .
10:14 Minister Marouni: we never obstruct and we don’t believe in the language of negativity but nevertheless we have our own reservations . We hope the politicians that will participate in the dialogue will realize it is shameful to disrupt the state and its institutions
10:05 Isarel is getting ready to free 5 Palestinian prisoners as part of the prisoner swap deal with Hezbollah
09:39 Baaba sources: It was agreed that the cabinet will adopt the ministerial policy statement on Monday and that the reservations by some will not create obstacles in the face of the adoption of the statement
09:09 March 14 alliance may hold an expanded meeting for its leaders next week . similar meeting is being planned by the opposition
09:01 Western sources expect the French president will visit Lebanon before heading to Syria in September
08:43 DPA: President Suleiman will return from Syria with Syria's recognition that Shebaa farms are Lebanese and the transfer of the prisoners in Syrian jails to the Lebanese justice system
07:50 Al Mustaqbal newspaper found out that Ghaleb Abu Zeinab , a member of Hezbollah's Political Council who is responsible for coordination with the Ministry of Communications has formally requested the Communications Minister Gibran Bassil to have all telephone numbers of all party officials outside the control of the state agencies including the organs of the ministry of telecommunications . It is known that a telephone outside the control of the state means it will not be within the billing systems which means that all calls by Hezbollah will be free of charge. Bassil is a member of FPM , which is headed by Gen Michel Aoun, who is allied with Hezbollah.
07:30 Al Hayat sources: President Suleiman wants to limit the participants in the dialogue talks to the original 14 to avoid any disputes in the event of adding more participants
07:20 Al Anwar sources: Contacts being made for arranging a conference for all the opposition leaders
07:00 Al Hayat sources: The summit in Damascus could result in a new development over the issue of Lebanese in Syrian jails. A Listing of the prisoners may be made public by Syria and or some of the prisoners may be set free.
06:30 Al Hayat sources: The exact date of the summit will be determined Monday in a phone call between Suleiman and Assad following the meeting of the cabinet. Most probably the summit will be on Wednesday
06:00 The Phalange ( Kataeb) and Lebanese Forces ministers may in tomorrow's cabinet meeting join Minister Lahoud in his opposition to the clause dealing with the relations between the state and the resistance
05:30 Minister Lahoud told an Nahar : I am going again to propose changes in tomorrow's cabinet meeting to the clause dealing with the relations between the state and the resistance and I am hoping my proposal will be adopted
Saturday
20:36 Arab League chief Amr Moussa told al Mustaqbal TV: The Arab League supports the Lebanese reconciliation and will be present at the dialogue talks
20:24 al Mustaqbal TV: President Assad's military adviser Mohammad Suleiman was found dead at a hotel in Tartous
20:11 Minister Shatah told al Mustaqbal TV: The state regulates the resistance and liberates and defends the land according to UNSCR 1701
19:03 Unexploded bomb was found inside a residential building in Syria Street in Tripoli and the Lebanese army is trying to defuse it . This street lies between Jabal Mohsin and Bab el Tabbanah the scene of a lot of violence for the past month
18:00 A Lebanese citizen Ahmad el Souda returned home today , a week after he disappeared.
Souda told NNA that he was kidnapped by gunmen disguised in army uniform in the Somali district of Beirut , they blindfolded him and led him into a dark room and tortured him by beating him up and burning him in various parts of his body using cigarette butts . They returned him in a four wheel car , dropped him off and sped up .
MP Hashem Alam Eddine came to see Souda to protest against this attack and said the MPS of the area will not rest until they find out and prosecute the criminals behind this attack. Also was there to complain was the al Mustaqbal coordinator in Almaniyeh province , zinyeh and the head of mayors of Almaniyeh
16:19 Hariri met a delegation of the Barbour traders headed by Rachid Kebbi who came to discuss the situation and their needs
16:13 Jumblatt received several delegations at his home in Mukhtara and received invitations to sponsor Kfranabrakh festivals and a church event in Fawwara , in the Shouf region of Mount Lebanon
Tags: Government, Hezbollah, March 14 Alliance, Prisoners, source: Now Lebanon, source: Ya Libnan, Syria
