President Michel Suleiman is mulling to invite Lebanese leaders to all-party talks at Baabda palace next month as presidential sources said that the dialogue table could witness radical changes.
The sources told As Safir daily published Saturday that some personalities would be left out while the dialogue would witness new faces.

President Michel Suleiman has expressed satisfaction with the cabinet’s performance saying it was the duty of all parties to support it in its efforts to meet the people’s demands.
Suleiman has told his visitors that the government was in harmony and was not witnessing clashes between the different parties. The cabinet should be described as centrist although it expresses a one-sided viewpoint.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has unveiled that he held a telephone conversation with former Premier Saad Hariri thanking him for his latest stance on Jumblat.
The Druze leader told An Nahar daily published Friday that he heard “moving words” from Hariri but refused to give further details.

President Michel Suleiman urged on Thursday politicians to prevent political disputes from affecting social affairs, “which are at the heart of democracy”, the National News Agency reported.
“There are many projects related to social affairs that are waiting to be approved,” he said during a meeting with General Labor Confederation Chief Ghassan Ghosn and an accompanying delegation.

Lebanese political forces are preparing to hold private and broad meetings to determine their stances on the new electoral law that the cabinet had pledged to finalize.
It vowed in its policy statement to finalize it a year before the parliamentary elections are to be held in 2013.

A heated debate erupted during Wednesday’s cabinet session over designating funds to be spent given the lack of an approved state budget, reported As Safir newspaper on Thursday.
The dispute had initially started during Monday’s cabinet session.

March 14 MP Butros Harb snapped back at Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, saying the party’s chief never proposed a defense strategy to the national dialogue conferees in 2006.
“All what Nasrallah proposed at the time was his point of view in anticipation of the proposal of the defense strategy along with Speaker Nabih Berri,” Harb told An Nahar daily published Wednesday.

A source close to President Michel Suleiman has warned from the dangers of the opposition’s rejection to meet at the national dialogue table.
“Those who are rejecting to respond to (Suleiman’s invitation) for dialogue should bear responsibility,” the source told As Safir daily published Wednesday.

The March 14-backed opposition is mulling to reject President Michel Suleiman’s invitation for national dialogue over claims that Hizbullah’s arms are no longer acceptable.
An Nahar daily quoted March 14 decision-makers as saying that the opposition might not respond to Suleiman’s request given that it has already launched a campaign against Hizbullah’s weapons and the discussion of the issue during all-party talks is useless.

A decree was issued on Monday allowing the parliament to hold extraordinary sessions starting August 1.
Speaker Nabih Berri told As Safir newspaper that he will call on holding a parliamentary session next month.
