Bulgaria aims to open a trial by April for a bomb attack that killed five Israeli tourists at an airport last year, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.

"Our ambition is to go to court... by the end of the first three months of next year at the maximum," Sotir Tsatsarov told journalists.

An arrest warrant was issued on Thursday against a suspect over his firing of rockets in the Baabda region on August 1, reported the National News Agency.

Military Examining Magistrate Fadi Sawwan issued an arrest warrant against Jamal Ismail after he was interrogated in the Ballouneh rockets case.

An agreement reached among the country's rival leaders last year to steer Lebanon clear of the region's crises did not deal with the resistance's arms but should have paved way for the discussion of the national defense strategy, said a Baabda Palace statement on Thursday.

The rival leaders from the March 8 and March 14 alliances affirmed on June 11, 2012 commitment to the Taef Accord and agreed to keep Lebanon away from the policy of regional and international conflicts to spare it the negative repercussions of the regional crises.

President Michel Suleiman, who is traveling to New York this month, is expected to meet with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama to discuss the Syrian crisis, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Thursday.

The daily said that the issue was discussed by Suleiman and Secretary of State John Kerry during a telephone conversation they held on Wednesday.

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel said Thursday that a deal for Beirut Port trucks to operate at night is aimed at easing traffic congestion and limiting accidents.

In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, Charbel said around 1,600 trucks are transporting goods in and out of Beirut port given the security situation in Syria.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour on Wednesday held phone talks with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem on the latest developments of the Syrian crisis and the outcome of the top Syrian diplomat's talks in Moscow, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

According to NNA, the phone conversation also tackled the Russian initiative on Damascus' chemical stockpiles, which Muallem hailed and said it "unveiled the real stances of world powers."

Speaker Nabih Berri expressed his “annoyance” on Wednesday over the “misinterpretation” of the dialogue proposal he come forward with during his latest televised speech.

"Berri is upset at those who intentionally misinterpreted several clauses of his suggestion, especially in what concerns disassociating Lebanon from the Syrian crisis and favoring instead to wait and see how things develop in the neighboring country,” several lawmakers quoted the speaker as saying after meeting with him in Ain el-Tineh.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc MPs discussed with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Wednesday ways to speed up the formation of a new government and launch national dialogue to resolve controversial issues, the head of the bloc, MP Fouad Saniora, said.

“The ball is in the court of the president and PM-designate to find ways to form a cabinet that would be based on either their proposal or would be made up of non-political figures,” Saniora said in Bkirki after holding talks with al-Rahi at the head of an al-Mustaqbal delegation.

President Michel Suleiman reiterated on Wednesday that the U.N. should hold accountable officials who used chemical weapons in Syria away from foreign military intervention.

During a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Suleiman said he rejected the use of chemical weapons but stressed the importance of a U.N. Security Council role in holding accountable the persons who used them, and finding a political solution to the crisis in Syria.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel urged on Wednesday the people to attend to Lebanon's security, but rejected the phenomenon of autonomous security.

He said: “All forms of autonomous security are rejected by the state.”