World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed Al Mandhari have issued a joint statement on their visit to Lebanon this week.

“We have just concluded a two-day visit to Beirut, Lebanon to reiterate our commitment to the people of Lebanon and express our solidarity and continued support,” the statement said.

The Lebanese company that owns the ammonium nitrate quantity that has been seized in the Bekaa has said that the fertilizer was intended for agricultural use.

"One of our employees informed the relevant authorities that we have ammonium nitrate, so they raided the warehouses on Friday," one of the company heads told French news agency AFP on condition of anonymity.

Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi on Saturday inspected a truck carrying 20 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Bidnayel Plain in the Bekaa after it had been seized in Baalbek, the National News Agency said.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka has held separate meetings with Prime Minister Najib Miqati, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jordanian Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Hadid.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati thanked Friday the Iraqi government "for supporting Lebanon in these difficult circumstances,” the National News Agency said.

Miqati’s statement came after he was briefed by the Minister of Energy Walid Fayyad about the procedures for the arrival of the first Iraqi fuel ship to the Deir Amar electrical plant.

Former public works minister Youssef Fenianos on Friday lamented what he called “great injustice” against him after an in-absentia arrest warrant was issued for him in the Beirut port blast case.

In a statement, Fenianos said the lead investigative judge, Tarek Bitar, did not implement “the proper legal measures,” referring to the preliminary objections that were dismissed by the judge.

Head of the Free Patriotic Movement Jebran Bassil tweeted that it took “15 years of struggle” to endorse the principle of forensic audit and “a fierce war of 20 months” to sign the contract.

He added in his tweet Friday that “only the implementation is left.”

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Friday for a plenary session to discuss the ministerial policy statement and to vote on granting confidence to the new government.

The session will be held on Monday morning at 11 am and on the evening of the same day at the UNESCO Palace.

President Michel Aoun on Friday pledged to the Lebanese people that the last year of his six-year tenure will be the “year of real reforms.”

“The forensic audit of the central bank’s accounts is a landmark step on the course of abiding by the rules of transparency, combating corruption, reform and accountability,” Aoun said in a statement, shortly after Finance Minister Youssef Khalil signed a forensic audit contract with the New York-based firm Alvarez & Marsal.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Friday commented sarcastically on the entry of Hizbullah-imported Iranian diesel from Syria into Lebanon.

“We no longer know from where the diesel, gasoline and oil convoys are coming,” Jumblat said in a tweet.