President Michel Aoun on Thursday met in Baabda with a visiting Iraqi delegation led by Health and Environment Minister Hassan al-Tamimi.

“We appreciate Iraq’s approval of Lebanon’s request to be supplied with raw oil in return for medical services,” Aoun said during the meeting.

The UK's Chargé d'Affaires in Lebanon, Martin Longden, on Wednesday emphasized "the ever more pressing need" for the formation of a new government in Lebanon.

"Agreed with Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab on the ever more pressing need for a new Flag of Lebanon government, capable of reform," Longden tweeted following talks with Diab at the Grand Serail.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah revealed Wednesday that there are “serious and collective efforts” to form a new government in Lebanon.

“Do not despair” regarding the government’s formation, Nasrallah added, addressing the Lebanese people in a televised speech.

Iraqi Health Minister Hassan Tamimi arrived Wednesday in Lebanon on an official visit.

The National News Agency said Tamimi arrived aboard a plane belonging to Iraqi Airways and carrying medical aid.

President Michel Aoun has expressed his concern over the threats that Lebanon and even the Lebanese “entity” are facing.

In an interview with al-Jadeed TV, Aoun said that his warning in September that Lebanon was headed to “hell” was not a slip of the tongue.

An Iranian delegation led by Shiite cleric Hamid Shahriari held talks Wednesday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi in Bkirki.

Shahriari is the general secretary of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought. He was named to the post by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Speaker Nabih Berri received in Ain el-Tineh on Wednesday the General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim and talks focused on the security and political situation in Lebanon, media reports said.

President Michel Aoun on Wednesday met at Baabda Presidential Palace caretaker Minister of Justice, Marie-Claude Najm, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The judicial investigator, Judge Tarek al-Bitar, will complete the interrogation of the detainees in the Beirut Port bombing case tomorrow, LBCI television station reported on Wednesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri has reportedly dispatched a delegate to the Center House in the evening on Tuesday, to explain his initiative to PM-designate Saad Hariri in a bid to ease the government formation deadlock, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Wednesday.