President Michel Aoun re-invited Monday Pope Francis to visit Lebanon, urging him to continue supporting Lebanon, during a visit to the Vatican city.

"Lebanon is in dire need for support," Aoun said in a meeting with the Pope, adding that he does not want Lebanon to "pay the price" for the region's conflicts.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati has said Lebanon can not be isolated from its neighboring Arab countries, welcoming a humanitarian French-Saudi initiative.

A French-Saudi fund had been decided in a meeting between Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, Miqati told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in remarks published Monday.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea snapped back Monday at Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, after the latter said that “anyone who allies with the LF would be allying with the killers of the Tayyouneh ambush martyrs.”

“These remarks are wrong, seeing as all of the Military Court’s preliminary and complementary investigations have so far proven that there was no ambush in Tayyouneh. Unfortunately, Sayyed Nasrallah and his group are the ones who objected against the judge and obstructed the investigation, the same as they did in the port crime. I wish they would let the probe continue in order to unveil all the facts,” Geagea said.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Monday filed charges against Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, accusing him of illicit enrichment and money laundering, TV networks said.

She also filed charges against Salameh’s brother Raja, who is in custody, and against Ukrainian national Anna Kosakova for interfering in the alleged offenses.

The head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, on Sunday admitted that the upcoming parliamentary elections will be a “very difficult” challenge to his party.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday said he discussed the thorny issue of Hizbullah’s weapons in a meeting in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

“We talked about the issue of Hizbullah’s arms, which is not in the hands of the Lebanese anymore, and had there been a defense strategy, a part of the problem would have been solved,” al-Rahi said in an interview with Lebanon’s MTV.

Cabinet held an emergency session Saturday to discuss the growing standoff between the banking sector and some judges, after unprecedented measures were taken against some banks in recent days and weeks.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has dismissed the reports about the presence of Hizbullah fighters in Ukraine as "mere rumors and lies."

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has alleged that the Russian army has chosen around 1,000 volunteers from what it called “the so-called army of Bashar al-Assad and Hizbullah.”

“The Command of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continues to take measures to make up for the loss of personnel at the expense of foreigners. According to available information, the Russian occupiers have already picked up close to 1,000 volunteers from the so-called army of Bashar al-Assad and Hizbullah,” the General Staff said in an English-language Facebook post.

President Michel Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Miqati held a meeting Friday at the Baabda Palace to discuss the latest U.S. proposal regarding the demarcation of the maritime border with Israel.

The proposal had been submitted to Lebanon during a recent visit to the country by U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein.