Speaker Nabih Berri lashed out on Wednesday at the March 14 alliance, pointing out that it acquired all the “flaws” of the March 8 camp and added to it its own “dreadful behavior.”

“Instead of cooperating and acquiring each others positive traits, the March 14 forces decided to take the March 8 camp's flaws and added worse behavior to them,” Berri's visitors quoted him as saying in comments published in An Nahar newspaper on Wednesday.

President Michel Suleiman held a series of consultations on Tuesday with Lebanese foes over the political situation in the country while the opposition insists on the resignation of the cabinet as a key condition to resume any political activity with the March 8 alliance.

Head of al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MP Fouad Saniora held talks with Suleiman at the Baabda Palace, where he briefed him on the March 14 alliance's demands concerning the immediate resignation of the government and the camp's stance from the recent developments in the country.

The March 14 alliance is pressing forward with its decision to topple the cabinet as it will boycott any official activity, including the parliament, An Nahar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Lawmakers affiliated with the March 14 parliamentary blocs boycotted Tuesday's joint parliamentary committees meeting, which is set to tackle the new electoral draft law.

The March 14 alliance refused on Monday to budge an inch on toppling the government, while the cabinet considered the attack launched by the supporters of the opposition only served its interests as Prime Minister Najib Miqati insists on carrying out his tasks.

Leadership sources in the March 14 camp told al-Joumhouria newspaper that the March 8 forces are exaggerating Sunday's incidents to divert the people's attention from the assassination of Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau head Brigadier General Wissam al-Hasan.

Several people were injured as security forces used tear gas on Sunday to repel demonstrators trying to storm the Grand Serail, the headquarters of the Lebanese government in downtown Beirut, amid calls for Prime Minister Najib Miqati to resign.

Following the funeral nearby of slain Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan, chief of the Internal Security Forces' Intelligence Bureau, "young people headed towards the building in the city center, but security forces blocked them by firing into the air and using tear gas," a policeman on the scene told Agence France Presse.

The head of the Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc MP Fouad Saniora accused on Sunday Hizbullah of following Iran's bidding through its recent sending of an unmanned drone to fly over Israel.

He said during a seminar in the southern city of Sidon: “Hizbullah is dragging Lebanon towards military operations and a possible Israeli retaliation that the country has not been consulted over.”

President Michel Suleiman is likely to postpone the national dialogue session until after Independence Day on November 22, reported the Kuwaiti al-Anba daily on Sunday.

It attributed the delay to Mustaqbal bloc head MP Fouad Saniora's inability to attend the scheduled November 12 session because of his presence abroad at the time.

Speaker Nabih Berri is seeking to ease the differences between the various Lebanese powers over the new parliamentary electoral law, reported An Nahar daily on Monday.

Information obtained by the daily revealed that the speaker, through Hizbullah's backing, had held separate talks with Mustaqbal bloc head MP Fouad Saniora, National Struggle Front ministers, and Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel to that end.

The European Union's Political and Security Committee expressed on Saturday support for the Lebanese government in its efforts to preserve security and backed the Lebanese Armed Forces in confronting internal and external threats.

The members of the committee chaired by Olof Skoog met with Prime Minister Najib Miqati in the presence of EU Ambassador Angelina Eichhorst at the Grand Serail.

Speaker Nabih Berri discussed with al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc head MP Fouad Saniora a wide range of issues including the electoral draft law and the social and economy situation.

Sources told An Nahar newspaper published on Tuesday this is the first meeting held between the two since the cabinet of ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri was toppled in January 2011 by the March 8 alliance, in which Berri is a key player.