The Change and Reform bloc noted on Tuesday that the president of the republic should derive his strength from within himself, which will help him advance in Lebanon.

MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the bloc's weekly meeting: “The president also derives his strength from his political representation.”

President Michel Suleiman assured on Tuesday that the current crisis in Lebanon can only be dealt with by “committing to unity and adopting the Baabda Declaration.”

"The Syrian crisis is causing many problems in Lebanon and those can only be dealt with by committing to out unity and to the Baabda Declaration,” Suleiman said in a speech he gave at an event marking the 5oth anniversary of the Institute of Judicial Studies.

President Michel Suleiman is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia this week after he received assurances from Saudi officials that the “kingdom's doors are always open to him,” reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.

Sources from the presidential palace told the daily: “The outcomes of the visit are expected to be positive because Saudi Arabia was the one who requested Suleiman's presence in the kingdom.”

President Michel Suleiman stated on Sunday that a strong leader is one that liberates themselves from parliamentary alliances.

“A strong president acquires power not by being affiliated with a parliamentary bloc,” Suleiman said on Twitter.

The army has arrested one of the suspects in the bus attack in the northern city of Tripoli and identified the rest of the assailants, the military command said.

The army leadership said in its communique late Saturday that Yehya Samir Mohammed, a Syrian, has been arrested and that soldiers were pursuing the remaining three suspects.

Speaker Nabih Berri urged on Saturday President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam to form a national unity cabinet, saying that the 9-9-6 formula aims at ending the vacuum.

“If I was in the place of Suleiman and Salam I would issue decrees to form a national unity cabinet and make all parties assume their responsibilities,” Berri said in comments published in al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday.

President Michel Suleiman stressed the need to keep Lebanon away from the repercussions of the Syrian crisis as stipulated by the Baabda Declaration, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

He told the daily: “We want to keep Lebanon neutralized from Syria in line with the Declaration.”

U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday that Lebanese top officials were “in favor of being invited” to a peace conference on Syria in Geneva later this month.

Following separate talks with President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati, Brahimi said: “The three leaders are in favor of being invited to it.”

Al-Mustaqbal bloc leader Fouad Saniora visited caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday night, culminating a round of talks he held with the country's top officials following his return from Paris.

Saniora's meetings started on Thursday with President Michel Suleiman as part of a delegation from the southern city of Sidon. He then held talks at his residence with Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati held a meeting two days ago away from the media spotlight, An Nahar newspaper reported on Friday.

Sources described the meeting as normal as the two officials consistently hold meetings to discuss the latest local and regional developments, in addition to the cabinet formation process.