Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi is expected to hold a mass on St. Maroun day in the northern city of Tripoli, media reports said on Wednesday.

Al-Rahi will head to Tripoli on Friday afternoon as the mass will be held at St. Maroun Church.

The head of the defense office of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Francois Roux, hinted on Wednesday that the trial of Hizbullah members accused of involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri could be delayed.

In remarks to several Beirut newspapers during his visit to the Lebanese capital, Roux said Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen had set March 25 as a provisional date.

The residents of the eastern town of Arsal formed on Wednesday a committee to hold talks with senior officials following a deadly ambush of an army patrol, media reports said.

The committee, according to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3), will meet with Army Commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji, President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati in light of the recent attack that left two army soldiers and a suspect dead.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati renewed on Wednesday his condemnation of the Arsal clash, calling on all sides to cooperate in handing over the assailants to the judiciary, while hoping that the national dialogue would be resumed.

He said: “We are obligated to reassure the people and not issue political statements, which some sides believe will increase their popularity, that only serve to widen the divide between the people.”

Speaker Nabih Berri advocated on Wednesday the adoption of an electoral draft-law referred by the government to the parliament after al-Mustaqbal made a new proposal that its critics said limited the representation of Christians in the legislature.

LBCI TV said that Berri referred al-Mustaqbal's draft-law to the government to study it pending its referral to the joint parliamentary committees.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea urged on Tuesday the residents of the Bekaa town of Arsal to hand over the suspects in the killing of Major Pierre Bashaalani and First Sergeant Ibrahim Zahraman.

"Despite the imperfections in the administration, the security forces and the judicial bodies, Lebanon is a democratic state and there are other references in the country,” Geagea said in an interview with Future Television.

The Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Tuesday called for a “transparent probe” into the recent incident in the Bekaa town of Arsal that left two army soldiers and a suspect dead.

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, the bloc urged President Michel Suleiman, the government and the judicial authorities to launch a “fair and transparent investigation in order to unveil the circumstances, starting with the death of the victim Khaled Hmayyed.”

An international media watchdog on Tuesday urged the Lebanese military court to withdraw all charges against journalist Rami Aysha, who faces trial by court-martial.

"We call not only for this military court to declare itself incompetent to try him but also for the withdrawal of all the charges," Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) head Christophe Deloire said in a statement.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati renewed on Tuesday Lebanon's condemnation of the bus attack that targeted a number of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria in 2012, in light of the country's accusation against Hizbullah of being involved in the incident.

He said in a statement: “We condemn any assault against any Arab or foreign country and we will cooperate with Bulgaria in the investigation into the attack.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun condemned on Tuesday the Arsal clash, saying that it has demonstrated that the Lebanese people have become embroiled in the Syrian conflict.

He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: “The Arsal clash should not be turned into a factional issue.”