U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis on Wednesday said that Lebanon should first “support itself” if it wants to receive international economic and financial support.

“Reforms, reforms, reforms,” Kubis said during a meeting with the Press Editors Syndicate when asked about the U.N.’s conditions for helping Lebanon during this period.

Activist Toni Khoury was interrogated on Wednesday over road blocking charges as the country grapples with nationwide demos, but he assured that protests against corruption will not cease despite “everything” saying “they have seen nothing yet.”

Belgium Foreign and Defense Minister Philippe Goffin is in Beirut as part of a regional tour to hold meetings with senior officials.

A supply vessel, Lundstrom Tide, arrived at Beirut Port in preparation for offshore drilling and exploration works, LBCI reported on Wednesday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat said he can not “cooperate” with the presidential term of President Michel Aoun, and that the latter “complies” to poor guidance by a group of advisers close to him, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat daily reported on Wednesday.

A fistfight erupted Tuesday evening between anti-government protesters and supporters of MP Ziad Aswad outside the Diwan Beirut Restaurant in Antelias.

Maronite Patiarch Beshara al-Rahi on Tuesday said the international community cannot offer Lebanon financial incentives with the aim of naturalizing Palestinian and Syrian refugees in the country.

“We reject any type of international policy that tries to burden Lebanon with the price of everything that is going on in the region,” al-Rahi said.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party held a “coordinative meeting” Tuesday at the PSP’s headquarters in Beirut.

Mustaqbal Secretary General Ahmed Hariri and PSP Secretary Zafer Nasser and several officials from the two parties attended the meeting, which tackled issues of common interest and means to boost coordination in the face of the current challenges.

The Strong Lebanon parliamentary bloc on Tuesday said “the priority should be the protection of the bank deposits of Lebanese citizens.”

It accordingly urged the new government to devise “an integrated and clear rescue plan” that would involve “measures binding for the parties concerned, including the central bank and the commercial banks.”

Civil Defense crews in cooperation with Electricite du Liban and Karadeniz, the Turkish firm that owns the power ship Fatmagül Sultan, have managed to contain a minor oil spill off Zouk’s coast, EDL said on Tuesday.

In a statement, EDL said the spill occurred as a ship was unloading fuel oil into the tanks of the Zouk power plant at 10:40 pm Monday.