Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea emphasized on Saturday that no one can impose a refugee resettlement in Lebanon as part of a US “peace” plan for the Middle East, the Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday.

The AMAL Movement has reportedly criticized Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil saying “he acts as if he has the final word in all the files,” the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat marked Resistance and Liberation Day on Saturday saying it will always be a “shining beacon in Lebanon’s history.”

Free Patriotic Movement chief and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on Friday said the government has endorsed the “first” state budget in Lebanon's history that “secures financial regularity.”

“We have achieved the first state budget that secures financial regularity. Only the state develops the country and development cannot be seasonal but rather a daily act,” Bassil said during an iftar banquet in the northern city of Tripoli.

President Michel Aoun on Friday met in Baabda with U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, the head of the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Engel was accompanied by a delegation and the meeting tackled “means to boost relations between the two countries in all fields,” the National News Agency said.

The Cabinet on Friday held its last Grand Serail session on the state budget and the final session will be held at the Baabda Palace at a date to be set later, the information minister said.

“We have finished discussing and approving the state budget's articles and numbers,” Jamal al-Jarrah told reporters after the session.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil held a meeting with special envoy of French President Emmanuel Macron, Aurélien Lechevallier, accompanied by the first chancellor at the French embassy in Beirut, Salina Cataluna, the National News Agency reported on Friday.

Minister of Economy and Trade Mansour Bteish on Friday issued a circular concerning the need to price goods and products in the Lebanese currency.

“Pursuant to the laws and regulations in force, in particular Article 5 of the Consumer Protection Law, which stipulates that traders must declare the price in Lebanese pounds in an apparent manner either on the item or on the shelf presented to him,” said the circular.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri asked the Secretary General of the Higher Relief Committee Major General Mohammed Kheir to take the necessary measures to accelerate the repatriation of the bodies of the four Lebanese students who died in a tragic car crash in the U.S. state of California lately, Hariri’s media office said on Friday.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield will return to Beirut next Tuesday to meet with Lebanese officials in the framework of his mediation over the demarcation of the territorial and maritime borders between Lebanon and Israel, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.