and is expected to respond shortly . Soe are predicting the meeting could place as early as today.
The meeting according to al Hayat newspaper the results of the meeting will reveal the nature of the obstacles facing formation of the government .
Sunday
11:00 Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was indicted today in corruption scandals that drove him to resign last year, a long-awaited legal step that made him the first current or former holder of Israel's most powerful office to be charged with a criminal offense
10;00 pm MP Marwan Hamadeh told Future TV: all the MPs of the Democratic Gathering bloc including the leader MP Walid Jumblatt, will attend Sunday’s March 14 meeting to confirm Jumblatt’s earlier statements that he is still part of the majority supporting Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri.
6:55 pmMouallem : Syrian-Saudi relations are going in the right path and the Saudi Ambassador to Syria
6:54 pm Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Mouallem said “ the investigation of Detlev Mehlis, the first commissioner of the UN investigation team into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, was aimed at indicting Syria.”
3:00 pm Internal Security Forces Bureau for Combating Terrorism and Crime detained a Lebanese citizen identified as Hussein al-Asmar, 40, in the southern village of Odayse for allegedly spying for Israeli Intelligence.
1:10 pm After meeting with Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir in the presence of MP Nadim Gemayel Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said “the Maronite Patriarchy is the base of the Lebanese state.” He added “ all parties to reconsider their rhetoric and embrace Sfeir’s positions which call for unity.”
12;25 pm : Jamil Sayyed attacked during a press conference Lebanese president Michel Suleiman , Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
08:36 Awan told Future News: The 71 majority MPs will meet tomorrow in a show of unity and to show support Hariri.
08:27 MP Jarrah told Al Anbaa: ": Hariri will not bypass the Constitution and quitting for him is out of the question regardless of the obstacles
08:23 Al Anbaa sources within the majority: Aoun may use travel as an excuse to avoid meeting with Hariri
08:14 Al Anbaa sources : There is talk about increasing the number of ministers to 32 to make sure the Christian minorities and Aalawites are represented
08:08 MP Abi Nasr warns of the shrinking Christian presence in Lebanon, which has reached 34%
08:06 Al Rai: Jumblatt will attend the meeting of the majority tomorrow and his party withdrew permanently from the secretariat of the March 14
07:55 Al Hayat : Hariri's initiative gave an acceptable solution for a meeting with Aoun and its results will reveal the nature of the obstacles facing formation of the government
07:39 Mass in Harissa in memory of the Nahr al Bared martyrs and another in Tannoureen in memory of the martyr Samer Hanna who was killed by Hezbollah
07:30 Sources within "Change and Reform": we need to recognize each in order to form a genuine partnership
07:08 visitors to president Suleiman: the country is without institutions and the army alone can not protect the internal situation
06:30 "An-Nahar": a meeting of the 71 MPs of the majority in the parliament tomorrow in support of the PM-designate
Saturday
2:50 pm FPM MP Alain Aoun: MP Michel Aoun will soon respond to Hariri’s initiative regarding a meeting in Baabda or at the parliament. He received a phone call from Suleiman regarding the initiative . His absence from the Iftar is not political and has asked FPM members to attend
1:05 pm Egyptian minister of petroleum will arrive in Beirut on Monday accompanied by a delegation to meet with caretaker energy minister Taborian. The meeting will be followed by a joint press conference
1;00 Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has agreed not to pitch his tent in a New York suburb during an upcoming United Nations visit after heated opposition from the community, US officials said Friday. The Libyan leader, who wants to stay true to his Bedouin roots, camps in a tent when he travels, setting up his sleeping quarters everywhere from Rome's main park to a garden across from the Elysee Palace in Paris.
