Oghassabian: No Compromise in the Works over STL

State Minister Jean Oghassabian denied a compromise was in the works on the Lebanon crisis over the international tribunal.

"Efforts and exchange of ideas is all there is," Oghassabian said in remarks published Wednesday by An-Nahar newspaper.

"Ongoing discussions are secret and all leaks are not true," he stressed, adding that Lebanon awaits a formal and public statement to be issued by Saudi King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar Assad in this respect.

Oghassabian insisted that Prime Minister Saad Hariri's visit to New York was to check on the monarch's wellbeing and not to hold talks with him.