The handover of those involved in the deadly Qabrshmoun incident began on Tuesday following a mediation by General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim.

“The first steps towards restoring security lie in handing over the culprits and we have started to receive the fugitives,” Ibrahim said after meeting Lebanese Democratic Party chief MP Talal Arslan in Khalde.

Waiting almost two hours for the quorum to be met, Prime Minister Saad Hariri adjourned the Cabinet meeting on Tuesday saying the move was necessary in order to vent tension after Sunday's deadly incident in the Alley village of Qabrshmoun.

President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Saad Hariri held separate meetings on Tuesday with French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly leading a delegation of military officials, the National News Agency reported.

During the meeting Aoun has hailed the “brethren relations between Lebanon and France,” stressing eagerness on “promoting them at various levels mainly at the level of military aid provided by France to the Lebanese Armed Forces, and its participation in the UNIFIL peacekeeping forces in south Lebanon,” said NNA.

125 Lebanese nationals arrived at dawn on Tuesday at the Beirut airport coming from Kazakhstan after the weekend brawl between Kazakh and Arab workers in one of the country's largest oil fields.

The Progressive Socialist Party said that Sunday’s Qabrshmoun incident was part of a campaign aiming to limit the role of Druze leader and PSP chief Walid Jumblat and that it began with “sizing down” his representation in the Cabinet, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Monday met with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah in Kuwait.

He was accompanied by a PSP delegation comprising Industry Minister Wael Abu Faour, ex-minister Ghazi Aridi, MP Hadi Abu al-Hosn and PSP deputy head for foreign affairs Dureid Yaghi.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday voiced regret over “the bloody incidents” that occurred Sunday in the Aley town of Qabrshmoun and strongly condemned “the armed attack that almost killed a government minister and resulted in the death of two of his bodyguards.”

“It ignited the fire of strife, disrupted peace and sparked panic and fear,” al-Rahi lamented.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday called for “prudence and wisdom” in the wake of the deadly incident in the Aley town of Qabrshmoun.

“The time now is for resorting to prudence and wisdom and for exerting utmost efforts to preserve unity and public order and we have full confidence in the wise leaders of Mount Lebanon,” Berri said.

Arab Tawhid Party leader ex-minister Wiam Wahhab on Monday called for the arrest of the gunmen who exchanged fire with the bodyguards of State Minister for Refugee Affairs Saleh al-Gharib and killed two of them.

“The Higher Defense Council's decisions are excellent and security must be imposed on everyone,” Wahhab tweeted.

Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan on Monday described the deadly clash in the Aley town of Qabrshmoun as a “premeditated sedition,” as he lashed out at Education Minister and Aley MP Akram Shehayyeb of the Progressive Socialist Party.

“The two martyrs Rami Salman and Samer Abu Farraj are the victims of a premeditated sedition that was incited two days in advance and the instigator is the sedition MP who sits around the Cabinet table and does not respect the simplest rules of coexistence, citizens' safety and the safety of his people. He is a vampire!” Arslan said, referring to Shehayyeb without naming him.