President Michel Suleiman headed on Sunday a meeting of the Lebanese delegation hours after arriving in New York to attend the U.N. General Assembly sessions and a conference of an international support group for Lebanon.

The state-run National News Agency said the meeting was aimed at making last minute preparations for Suleiman's participation at the General Assembly and a speech he is scheduled to make.

The parliamentary session, which Speaker Nabih Berri had called for, was postponed for the fifth time on Monday over lack of quorum.

The new session will be held on October 23.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said that he has personally overseen the selection of members and officers of a task force that is scheduled to fan out across Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, stressing that the majority of them are not Shiites.

In remarks to As Safir daily published on Monday, Charbel said the choice of members who would oversee Dahieh's security along with their officers was made without any political pressure or interference.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will make a televised speech on Monday to tackle the latest developments in Lebanon and the region.

Nasrallah's speech comes in light of security deployment in the party's stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Speaker Nabih Berri hailed on Monday the expected deployment of security forces in the southern suburbs of Beirut, pointing out that the AMAL movement and Hizbullah will cooperate.

“We believe in legitimacy of state,” Berri said in comments to local newspapers.

Fifteen-year-old Haitham, a Syrian refugee in the Lebanese capital, starts his day at 7:00 am, but instead of carting school books, he is stocking the shelves of a supermarket.

He is one of thousands of Syrian children who have fled the country's conflict and now find themselves working to make ends meet.

MP Mohammed Raad, head of the Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, stressed Sunday that Hizbullah “is the first party to welcome the decision of the state security agencies to assume their security missions in Beirut's southern suburbs.”

“In the wake of the Rweiss bombing, state authorities were incapable of performing their role in providing security and stability for our people in Dahieh, so we took some measures that can be described as 'first aid' while waiting for the state to carry out its duties,” Raad noted, on the eve of a security plan that will see a joint force composed of troops from the army and security services take over security at checkpoints set up by Hizbullah after the blasts that hit Bir al-Abed and Rweiss.

A joint force of 800 men composed of soldiers from the army and security services will begin their deployment on Monday afternoon in the southern suburbs of Beirut, where they will take over security at checkpoints set up by Hizbullah in the wake of two bombings that hit its stronghold, caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said on Sunday.

Following the blasts that rocked Bir al-Abed and Rweiss, Hizbullah turned the southern suburbs into a fortress with guards in civilian clothes policing the streets, stopping and searching cars and asking motorists for their IDs.

United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly highlighted the importance of the Baabda Declaration that calls for disassociating Lebanon from regional conflicts, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

He told the daily that he had recently warned Hizbullah leaders of the danger of rejecting the agreement.

President Michel Suleiman traveled to New York on Sunday to attend the United Nations General Assembly that is set for September 24, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba on Sunday.

He is “almost definitely” expected to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama, it added, while not ruling out the possibility of a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rowhani.