President Michel Suleiman urged on Thursday the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL leaderships to expand the investigation into the infiltration of an Israeli patrol into southern Lebanon.

Suleiman's request came in an attempt to study in detail the circumstances of the infiltration that took place early Wednesday to add the information to a complaint that Lebanese authorities plan to file with the U.N. Security Council.

President Michel Suleiman has said that the army-people-resistance formula can no longer be used for the new cabinet's policy statement over Hizbullah's involvement in the war in Syria, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The daily quoted Suleiman as telling a delegation from the Beirut National Gathering that the resistance took a unilateral decision to fight in Syria without consulting with the army and the people.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called on the Lebanese to express support to President Michel Suleiman to salvage the state, stressing that the March 14 alliance has no other option but to back Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam in order to reach a neutral cabinet.

“Suleiman is the only remaining symbol for legitimacy,” Geagea said in comments published in al-Akhbar newspaper on Wednesday.

Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji stressed on Tuesday that the Army Command will be strict in addressing ties between officers and political leaderships.

He said during a meeting with high-ranking officers: “No politician is permitted to communicate with the army through an officer or a soldier.”

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is planning to visit Saudi Arabia for Omra on Eid al-Fitr holiday, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Tuesday amid reports of a trip by President Michel Suleiman to Riyadh.

According to al-Liwaa, Salam would have the occasion to meet with top Saudi officials and al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-Premier Saad Hariri during his expected visit.

Caretaker Environment Minister Nazem el-Khoury denied on Monday that President Michel Suleiman discussed his term extension with caretaker Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil.

Khoury, who is close to Suleiman, told An Nahar newspaper that Tawhid Movement leader Wiam Wahhab's statements that the president's speech on the occasion of the Army Day came after Khalil informed him that the March 8 alliance rejects extending his mandate.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi called on Monday for taking President Michel Suleiman's Army Day speech as a basis of reconciliation talks among Lebanese leaders.

“It's about time for political parties to sit at the table of frankness and reconciliation” and discuss the local situation, al-Rahi said in his sermon during a mass in his summer residence of Diman.

President Michel Suleiman met on Sunday with newly sworn-in Iranian head of state Hasan Rowhani, and both leaders stressed on the need to find a peaceful solution for the Syrian crisis.

"The Lebanese and Iranian presidents expressed that they are ready to cooperate with other countries in the region to find a peaceful solution for the war in Syria,” the state-run National News Agency revealed.

Lebanese Forces leader Geagea called on Sunday for support to President Michel Suleiman and hinted that the rocket attacks on the Baabda area this week came from a Hizbullah stronghold.

Suleiman's speech on Army Day was “purely constitutional,” Geagea told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) in an interview.

President Michel Suleiman has reportedly admonished Hizbullah for failing to coordinate with any party inside Lebanon before sending its members to Syria to support troops loyal to the Assad regime against the rebels.

“What happened is that the resistance went to Syria without coordinating with anyone,” officials, who have visited Suleiman, quoted him as saying.