U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday that Lebanese top officials were “in favor of being invited” to a peace conference on Syria in Geneva later this month.

Following separate talks with President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, Brahimi said: “The three leaders are in favor of being invited to it.”

The Saudi Royal Diwan and the Baabda Palace are discussing the timing of an upcoming visit for President Michel Suleiman to Riyadh a month after it was postponed for unclear reasons.

According to As Safir newspaper published on Friday, Suleiman is considering if he will be able to head to Saudi Arabia at the beginning of November.

The representatives of rival Christians parties held talks on Thursday night, their second meeting in less than a month under the auspices of Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Al-Joumhouria newspaper said Friday that Bishop Samir Mazloum presided the meeting that was attended by Phalange MP Sejaan Azzi, Lebanese Forces lawmaker Elie Kayrouz, a Free Patriotic Movement representative in the resigned cabinet, Minister Salim Jreissati, Marada movement official Salim Saadeh, who is a former minister, in addition to ex-Minister Roger Deeb, and former ambassador Abdullah Bou Habib.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora visited caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday night, culminating a round of talks he held with the country's top officials following his return from Paris.

Saniora's meetings started on Thursday with President Michel Suleiman as part of a delegation from the southern city of Sidon. He then held talks at his residence with Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati held a meeting two days ago away from the media spotlight, An Nahar newspaper reported on Friday.

Sources described the meeting as normal as the two officials consistently hold meetings to discuss the latest local and regional developments, in addition to the cabinet formation process.

Israeli warplanes have struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia, targeting missiles that might have been destined for Hizbullah, CNN quoted an Obama administration official as saying on Thursday.

An explosion at a missile storage site in the area was widely reported in the Israeli press, but an attack has not been confirmed by the Israeli government.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed on Thursday that no international power can force the disposition of Syria's chemical arms in Lebanon.

"Sources close to the Hague assured that there are unofficial reports saying Lebanon will take part in the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons,” Berri said in a speech he gave during an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Imam Sadr Foundation.

Islamic Alawite Council head Sheikh Assad Assi on Thursday stressed that the council will not tolerate the summoning of top Alawite leader Ali Eid for interrogation in the case of the deadly twin bombings that rocked Tripoli in August.

“The Alawite sect totally disavows the perpetrators of the two massacres that happened outside the al-Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in Tripoli and it is awaiting a legal and national investigation, not a politicized investigation linked to a foreign scheme,” Assi said at a press conference.

Intermittent clashes and sniper activity continued on Thursday between the rival Tripoli neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen, leaving one person dead and several others were wounded, including soldiers.

“Six soldiers were wounded when they came under gunfire while chasing a fugitive in Bab al-Tabbaneh,” Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly welcomed the temporary halt of violence in the northern city of Tripoli, but said that long-term measures are needed in order to thwart its recurrence.

He said from Tripoli: “What is needed are long-term security, but also economic and social solutions.”