Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri threw a dinner banquet Friday in honor of Lebanon's political, security and religious leaders and hoped a new president will be elected “before Eid al-Fitr,” which will be observed in early July.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat reassured Friday that Syrian refugees will not be naturalized in Lebanon, after a report prepared by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon sparked concerns in the country.

U.S. Chargé d’Affaires in Lebanon Richard Jones declared Friday that Washington prefers that the Syrian refugees in Lebanon be resettled in other countries, after remarks attributed to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon sparked concerns that the international community was seeking the naturalization of the refugees in Lebanon.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq announced on Friday the postponement of the municipal elections in a town on the northern region of Bcharre, reported the National News Agency.

He said that the elections have been postponed “indefinitely” in the town of Torza due to “local tensions”

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah stressed Friday that the killing of the group's top military commander, Mustafa Badreddine, will not push Hizbullah to withdraw its fighters from war-torn Syria.

“Until today, the martyrdom of any of our leaders has not pushed us to leave any battlefield and Badreddine's blood will push us to a bigger presence in Syria... We will remain in Syria and more leaders will go into Syria,” said Nasrallah in a televised speech marking one week since Badreddine's death in a blast near Damascus airport.

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry sent a cable of condolences on Friday to Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi over the crashing of an EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants offers its deepest condolences to President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, to the families of the victims and to the people of Egypt,” said the statement.

U.N. Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag stated on Friday that the controversial report of U.N. chief Ban Kin-moon on the refugees did not mention naturalizing or granting the Lebanese nationality for Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

“Ban knows well that the Lebanese constitution does not allow naturalization. His report did not mention Lebanon,” said Kaag after a meeting with Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil.

Head of the parliamentary media committee MP Hassan Fadlallah emphasized that the committee will carry on efforts with regards to the illegal internet file until it reaches the final results that safeguard Lebanon's national security and the state's finances, As Safir daily reported on Friday.

“The committee will follow up closely on the internet file and all its branches. The file will not be closed until we reach final results that safeguard the national security and the state's finances,” Fadlallah told As Safir.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri stressed Thursday that any attempt to “change Lebanon's identity” or import “extremism and terrorism” will fail.

The council of ministers announced Thursday that it unanimously rejects any attempt to naturalize Syrian refugees in Lebanon, after remarks attributed to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon stirred a storm of criticism in the country.