Prime Minister Najib Miqati announced Monday evening that he will continue his "missions and efforts," after media reports suggested that he might resign.

Conflicting reports emerged Monday evening on whether or not Prime Minister Najib Miqati intends to resign.

There will be no deal at the expense of the judicial investigation that Judge Tarek Bitar is conducting, sources informed on President Michel Aoun's stances said on Monday.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday told visiting U.N. chief Antonio Guterres that Israel does not want a role for the U.N. in the sea border demarcation talks.

Lebanon's religious leaders met Monday with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during his visit to Lebanon.

A joint communique was issued after the talks in which the conferees confirmed their "commitment to openness, tolerance and coexistence as the essence of Lebanon’s identity and stability."

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived Sunday in Beirut on an official visit that will last until Wednesday.

He was welcomed at the airport by Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, the permanent Lebanese envoy to the U.N. Amal Mudallali and the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Joanna Wronecka.

Through the COVAX program, the United States on Sunday delivered a donation of 336,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccine to Lebanon to support the continued fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

As a single dose vaccine, this J&J donation can fully inoculate 336,000 Lebanese against Covid-19, the U.S. embassy said in a statement.

MP Alain Aoun of the Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc has stressed that the FPM will not engage in “any deals or bargains,” such as attending a parliamentary session for referring the accused ministers in the port case to the Higher Council for Trial of Ministers and Presidents in return for the resumption of Cabinet sessions.

“As for the condition that the (Shiite) duo is placing to return to Cabinet, its key is in the hands of the judiciary or the constitution, and we’re not an obstacle in the way of any of them,” Aoun said in an interview with the al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper published Sunday.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has warned that failing to take swift action to address Lebanon’s accumulating crises would mean that the country will head to a “worse” situation.

“The next week will be decisive in clarifying the course of things,” Berri told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper in remarks published Sunday.

The White House has said that Washington does not want Lebanon to become a “failed state,” while noting that it has used “a combination of carrots and sticks” in its approach towards the country.

“One thing we want to try to make sure is that we don’t have any more failed states in the Middle East region. Failed states open vacuums, and those vacuums are not filled by moderates, they’re filled by extremist actors on all sides and become kind of proxy fights by regional powers,” a senior administration official told journalists in a year-end discussion on the Middle East.