A U.S. State Department official told Al-Arabiya TV on Tuesday that stability in Lebanon affects the entire region.

“There is a historic chance for Lebanon to move forward and we will support that,” the official added.

President Joseph Aoun on Monday stressed the need to activate Lebanese-Kuwaiti relations and develop them in all fields, during a meeting in Kuwait with the Gulf country’s emir Sheikh Mishaal al-Ahmed Al-Sabah.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the municipal and mayoral elections were conducted “successfully” in north Lebanon on Sunday thanks to the “responsible management” of the Interior Ministry.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem will make a televised address at 8:30 pm Monday on the occasion on the ninth anniversary of the death of Hezbollah’s slain military chief Mustafa Badreddine, who was killed in the Syrian conflict.

Celebratory gunfire that erupted Sunday in the wake of north Lebanon’s municipal elections wounded several people, including LBCI reporter Nada Andraous.

President Joseph Aoun has stressed that “diplomacy is the way to restore Lebanon’s full sovereignty,” adding that “no one in Lebanon wants war and everyone understands the need to limit arms to the hands of the state.”

Voting got underway Sunday in north Lebanon’s municipal and mayoral elections, which witnessed a higher number of clashes compared to last Sunday’s polls in the Mount Lebanon governorate.

Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh said that the so-called Axis of Resistance is not in its best situation today, but added that “it is premature to say that it has ended, even if it has been dealt a very strong blow.”

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji on Thursday met with French Ambassador to Lebanon Herve Magro, who handed him a copy of the documents and maps of the French archive that are related to the Lebanese-Syrian border, the French Ministry said.

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday visited the Central Bank in Beirut’s Hamra area and met with its newly-appointed governor Karim Souaid and his four deputies.