Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday hoped all Lebanese will show a “unified stance” on his calls for neutrality.

“We hope all Lebanese will show a unified stance in order to reach a resolution from the Security Council and the U.N. stipulating that Lebanon has an active neutral system that should be respected by all countries,” said al-Rahi during a meeting with a Kataeb Party delegation in Diman.

Judge Faisal Makki on Monday ordered the preventive freeze of the real estates and assets of governor of Central Bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh, in connection with a request filed by lawyers and activists of The People Want to Reform the System group.

Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar said on Monday that power supply is going to notably improve after weeks of power cuts that saw much of the country plunge into darkness, adding to the gloom of a deepening economic and financial crisis in the country.

Security sources denied on Monday reports claiming that a Lebanese detained on Sunday in Cyprus over drug dealing charges reportedly belongs to Hizbullah, MTV station said.

In light of an uptick in Lebanon’s COVID-19 cases, Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi launched a campaign to raise awareness on preventing the virus spread noting that police will impose “strict” measures to enforce protection, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Sunday supported Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi’s call for Lebanon’s neutrality but said it has prerequisites such as the neutrality of the “neighboring countries.”

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday stressed that “the system of neutrality is not a sectarian, partisan or imported proposal.”

“It aims to regain our main identity and nature and it is a gateway for salvation for all Lebanese without exception,” al-Rahi added in his Sunday Mass sermon, explaining his repeated calls for Lebanon’s neutrality in recent weeks.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi will soon visit the Vatican, in the first foreign trip following his landmark calls for Lebanon’s neutrality, MTV said.

He will visit the United States after the U.S. presidential elections, the TV network added.

Higher Islamic Shiite Council chief Sheikh Abdul Amir Qabalan snapped back Sunday at Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi over the latter’s calls for Lebanon’s neutrality, in a statement marking the 14th anniversary of the 2006 war with Israel.

Blasting “silliness and pettiness,” Qabalan lashed out at “those who sympathize with traitors and collaborators under various slogans seeking to distort the image of resistant Lebanon after it triumphed over the Zionist enemy.”

Authorities in Cyprus have extradited to the United States a Hizbullah member accused of drug dealing, Al-Arabiya TV reported on Sunday.

Cyprus' supreme court had on May 29 upheld an order to extradite a suspected Hizbullah member to the U.S. on money laundering charges, according to official media.