President Michel Suleiman insisted on Friday on the formation of a cabinet equally divided among the Lebanese foes, saying that he is still waiting Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam's proposal.

“If Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat is capable of establishing a better formula then he should propose it,” diplomatic sources quoted Suleiman as saying in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea slammed Hizbullah for rejecting serious dialogue on its arms and said it was too early to discuss about his possible candidacy for the presidential elections next year.

In an interview with Rose El Youssef Egyptian magazine that will be published on Saturday, Geagea said: “Hizbullah is not ready for any serious discussion on the state and holds onto its doctrine and political project.”

The United Nations gave a grim warning Wednesday that Lebanon faces an explosion of social tensions unless the international community helps to handle hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.

President Michel Suleiman told foreign ministers from the world's leading nations that his country faces an "existential crisis" because of the influx fleeing the war between President Bashar Assad and opposition rebels.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat on Wednesday called for avoiding the formation of a cabinet that “might be deemed unconstitutional,” after President Michel Suleiman said a new government could be formed before October.

“I call for reconsidering the 8-8-8 formula as we need an inclusive cabinet to confront the major problems,” Jumblat told al-Manar television.

President Michel Suleiman met on Wednesday with several world leaders during his visit to New York in the United States.

Suleiman held talks with new Iranian leader Hasan Rowhani at the headquarters of the United Nations in the U.S. state.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale highlighted on Wednesday the additional U.S. assistance to Lebanon for both the humanitarian and security challenges that Lebanon faces that was announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

He said after holding talks with caretaker Information Minister Walid al-Daouq: “This aid helps the Lebanese army fulfill its mandate as Lebanon’s sole legitimate defense force and implement outstanding U.N. Security Council resolutions, such as 1701 and 1559.”

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said his contribution to form a new government went in vain and stressed that Lebanon needed a “miracle” for the international community to shoulder the costs of the Syrian war's spillover.

“We tried everything we could. We were (condemned to) hard labor and made in vain many proposals to form the government,” Jumblat told As Safir daily in remarks published on Wednesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri ruled out on Wednesday that President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam would seek to form a cabinet that would be divided equally between the political foes.

“If a de facto cabinet was formed then the resumption of the dialogue and any possible solutions to the current crises will be blocked,” Berri said in comments published in local newspapers.

President Michel Suleiman said Tuesday that Lebanon was struggling under the weight of at least a million Syrian refugees as the U.S. pledged tens of millions of dollars in aid to offset the costs of the war spillover.

Suleiman spoke of the crisis in his address to world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Hours earlier, he met with President Barack Obama, who praised Lebanon for its generosity in welcoming refugees fleeing the crisis in neighboring Syria.

The United States has approved $8.7 million in military assistance focused on increasing the Lebanese Armed Forces’ ability to "monitor, secure, and protect Lebanon’s borders against terrorist threats and the illicit transfer of goods," the White House announced on Tuesday.

The U.S. also donated more than $74 million to help Lebanon cope with the growing refugee crisis.