Energy Minister Walid Fayyad traveled Sunday to Paris on an official visit during which he will meet with top officials in the energy, electricity and water sectors, state-run National News Agency reported.

“He will also meet with a number of officials at French electricity company EDF, the French Development Agency (AFD), which is funding several water and sewage projects, and the Total (Energies) firm, which is working on (offshore oil and gas) blocks 4 and 9,” NNA added.

Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut Elias Aude on Sunday slammed the parties who are attempting to “conceal the truth and the criminals” in the Beirut port blast case, at a mass marking the 16th anniversary of the assassination of Gebran Tueni.

“It is no longer acceptable for the government to remain paralyzed in its decisions and actions nor to remain subject to a political minority that acts as the ruling majority,” Aude quoted Tueni as saying prior to his assassination.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at “those who are using their political influence to obstruct Cabinet meetings and the course of the judicial investigation into the port blast disaster.”

“We cannot accept a government that paralyzes itself. Are obstructors testing what the reactions would be should they later decided to block parliamentary and presidential elections?” al-Rahi wondered in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati announced Saturday in a tweet that he lauds the latest Gulf tour of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Phillippe Lazzarini, just ended a three-day visit in Lebanon where he met with UNRWA staff and refugees in Bourj al-Barajneh camp near Beirut.

Several explosions shook a Hamas arms depot in the Palestinian refugee camp of al-Bourj al-Shamali in southern Lebanon on Friday night, causing deaths and injuries, Lebanon’s National News Agency said.

The European Commission on Friday adopted a new equivalence decision certifying that COVID-19 certificates issued by Lebanon are equivalent to the EU Digital COVID Certificate.

The EU Digital COVID Certificate is a proof that a person has either been vaccinated against COVID-19, received a negative PCR test result or recovered from COVID-19. It was launched by the European Commission on July 1, 2021 in order to facilitate safe free movement across the European Union during the pandemic. Fifty-six countries and territories in five continents have since joined the system, with non-EU countries connecting through an equivalence decision.

"There is no crisis between KSA and Lebanon," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud told Kuwait's al-Qabas newspaper.

Bin Farhan elaborated that the "crisis in Lebanon is between Hizbullah and the Lebanese people."

Prime Minister Najib Miqati published Friday on his official Facebook page the details of his visit to Egypt on Thursday.

Miqati presented Thursday a number of special requests in the energy field and electricity.

Beirut port blast detainees Shafik Merhi, Badri Daher, Hassan Koraytem and Hanna Fares on Friday filed a complaint to the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

The move coincides with the international Human Rights Day.