French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Wednesday voiced a stern message regarding Lebanon’s political crisis, on the eve of an official visit to Beirut.

“I will be in Lebanon tomorrow with a message of great firmness to political leaders and a message of full solidarity to the Lebanese,” Le Drian tweeted.

Fifty-nine containers of highly dangerous substances were cleared Wednesday from the disaster-hit Beirut port, nine months after the explosion of hundreds of tons of poorly stored ammonium nitrate at the facility caused a deadly and unprecedented peacetime catastrophe in Lebanon.

“Following a strenuous follow-up by caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab for more than eight months, fifty-nine containers of highly dangerous substances found at Beirut port and other places after the Aug. 4 blast disaster were exported today,” the Premiership said in a statement.

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Wednesday raided the offices of the Prosec money transfer firm in Baabda, in a new development that follows her controversial raids on the Mecattaf cash shipping company in Awkar.

State-run National News Agency said Aoun raided the firm after it refused to hand over requested data.

The sixth round of indirect negotiations scheduled Wednesday between Lebanon and Israel on their maritime borders have been postponed to an “unspecified” date, media reports said.

Al-Mustaqbal MP Mohammed el-Hajjar on Wednesday pinned significance on the expected visit of French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to Beirut amid the government’s impasse, noting that PM-designate Saad Hariri will eventually “take a decision” on the complex formation of a cabinet, the National News Agency reported.

Director at the Rafik Hariri International Hospital, Firass Abiad, said on Wednesday that Lebanon’s worsening economic and financial crisis has exacerbated the inability of patients to seek medical treatment.

The Association of Banks in Lebanon denounced on Wednesday a judicial decision to freeze the real estate assets of all Lebanese banks and the real estate assets, shares and stocks of their chairmen.

The Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc on Tuesday called on Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to “immediately move to submit a complete cabinet line-up.”

In a statement issued after its weekly e-meeting, the bloc said such a line-up should “clearly include the distribution of portfolios to sects” and should specify “the authorities that should name the nonpartisan and specialist ministers.”

President Michel Aoun held a meeting Tuesday evening with the members of the Lebanese delegation to the sea border talks with Israel, following the fifth round of negotiations in Ras al-Naqoura.

“The delegation’s members briefed President Aoun on the deliberations of the meeting, which was held with the participation of the U.S. delegation, whose head demanded that the negotiation be limited to the Israeli and Lebanese lines submitted to the U.N., or within the 860-square-kiolmeter area, contrary to the Lebanese stance and to the principle of negotiations without preconditions,” the Presidency said in a statement.

After a nearly six-month pause, Lebanon and Israel on Tuesday resumed indirect talks with U.S. mediation over their disputed maritime border.

The five-hour negotiations round was held "amid total secrecy and away from the media spotlight," Lebanon's National News Agency said.