Speaker Nabih Berri described on Wednesday a statement issued by March 14 opposition MPs as a “positive step” pending their next measure aimed at activating a parliamentary subcommittee on an electoral draft-law.

In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, Berri said he was still waiting for their next step to take the appropriate action in calling for the subcommittee's meeting.

The Syndicate Coordination Committee stood firm on Wednesday in holding a strike to protest the cabinet's delay in referring the controversial new wage scale for public employees to the parliament.

The SCC, a coalition of private and public school teachers and public sector employees, kicked off a protest on Wednesday from the Barbir square in Beirut towards the Grand Serail.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel revealed on Wednesday that al-Mustaqbal bloc MP Khaled al-Daher is at the top of a list of opposition officials who could be targeted in assassination plots.

In remarks to As Safir daily, Charbel said he has received information that four personalities from the March 14 opposition alliance are in danger, adding that al-Daher faces the biggest threat.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MP Oqab Saqr considered on Tuesday the arrest warrant issued against him by the Syrian regime “a source of pride coming from this era's stupidity and its assassin”.

"Issuing these warrants is a clear proof of the Syrian regime's involvement in the fabrication of the recordings' case,” Saqr said in a released statement.

Al-Mustaqbal bloc accused on Tuesday the Syrian regime of exploiting the Tall Kalakh ambush to keep the violence and clashes going in Tripoli.

“Assad's regime is procrastinating in the handing over of the fighters' bodies to keep the people of Tripoli occupied with this issue and fighting over it,” Al-Mustaqbal said after the bloc's weekly meeting.

Syria issued on Tuesday arrest warrants against former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Mustaqbal MP Oqab Saqr, and Syrian opposition member Louay al-Meqdad.

MTV said the arrest warrants were issued on charges of “arming and financing terrorist groups in Syria.”

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun criticized on Tuesday the government's failure to follow up on various development projects in Lebanon, including the completion of the Jal el-Dib bridge.

He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: “The bridge should have been completed by now.”

Arab Democratic Party political relations official Rifaat Ali Eid accused on Tuesday the Free Syrian Army of being involved in the latest round of clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, while adding that the Mustaqbal Movement has also been smuggling arms to Syria.

He said during a press conference: “The Mustaqbal Movement has been inciting the residents of Tripoli to attack the Jabal Mohsen neighborhood.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Tuesday that the Lebanese army will remain in the northern city of Tripoli's hotspots as long as there is a danger of the eruption of another round of violence.

During a chat with reporters at his residence in Tripoli, Miqati expressed satisfaction with the measures adopted by the army.

U.N. Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson hailed on Tuesday the “sacrifices” made by the Lebanese people in assisting Syrian refugees who have escaped the fighting in their country.

Following talks with Prime Minister Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail, Eliasson said the Lebanese people are making “huge sacrifices” and the U.N. appreciates and respects the efforts to deal with the situation of the displaced Syrians.