President Michel Aoun on Wednesday stressed that Lebanon is “determined to hold the parliamentary elections on time on May 15, after having secured the necessary funding and accomplished a lot of related preparations.”

Aoun voiced his remarks in a meeting in Baabda with U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati has made on Tuesday night a series of contacts to discuss a new format of a capital control law that will be tackled in Cabinet today, al-Liwaa newspaper said Wednesday.

The daily reported that the prime minister has contacted top officials, political leaders and ministers to discuss the new version of the law, ahead of today's session.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati has said that some parties are trying to topple the government to torpedo the parliamentary elections.

Miqati told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Wednesday, that he will not get dragged into resigning.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has met with the visiting secretary-general of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, Ziyad al-Nakhalah, and an accompanying delegation, Hizbullah announced on Wednesday.

The two men discussed “the latest situations in the Palestinian arena, the development of the jihadist operations within the territories occupied in 1948, and the operations that took place over the past days,” the party said in a statement.

Lebanon is grappling with an education "emergency," a United Nations official said, as years of economic collapse weigh heavily on students and teachers.

"We are now in an emergency situation. Education in Lebanon is in crisis because the country is living in crisis," Maysoun Chehab of the U.N. education and culture body (UNESCO) told AFP.

British Ambassador to Lebanon Ian Collard has visited Baalbek ‘the City of the Sun’ and joined students at the American University of Science and Technology in Zahle.

"The Ambassador’s visit to Baalbek (on Tuesday) was an opportunity to hear from Baalbek-Hermel Governor Bachir Khodr, local officials, dignitaries and NGOs about the important work they are doing to support their communities during very difficult times," the British Embassy in Beirut said.

The U.N. Productive Sectors Development Program (PSDP) funded by the Government of Canada is launching an online survey for women and men farmers, entrepreneurs, and Medium and Small to Medium industries and cooperatives working in the agri-food sector in Lebanon.

The survey aims to select beneficiaries in the PSDP’s activities, which will include technology transfer and technical skills training in the agricultural and agri-food sectors, training on environmental sustainability, and in-kind support, with a specific focus on female youth skills’ upgrade, and innovations promotion.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Tuesday that Paris “lauds the Kuwaiti mediation for allowing Lebanon to overcome its crisis.”

“We stressed that we will continue to closely work for the sake of peace and security in the region,” La Drian added in Kuwait, following talks with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmed al-Nasser Al-Sabah.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed Tuesday that the government will not resign before the parliamentary elections.

"One of the government's tasks today is to hold parliamentary elections, and my resignation might be a reason for disrupting the polls," Miqati said.

The head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, claimed Tuesday that political rivals want to win the parliamentary majority “in order to secure laws that would allow them to normalize relations with the Israeli enemy.”

“All parties want to keep us away from the parliamentary action arena in order to implement their agendas,” Raad added, at a political rally in the southern town of Yohmor.