Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu is to visit Lebanon next Tuesday as an affirmation of Turkey’s support for the Lebanese government, al-Joumhouria newspaper said Friday.

Al-Joumhouria added that Çavuşoğlu, coming from Iran, will meet with top Lebanese leaders and convey to Prime Minister Najib Miqati an invitation from Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to travel to Ankara, on an official visit.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday urged Lebanese abroad to turn out heavily in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

“Lebanon is sick at the moment and it needs an essential surgery, a surgery that is possible and whose success chances are high, if we all pray for Lebanon and grant it our votes,” Geagea said in a message to expats.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday said he does not want to “escalate” things in the diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia but stressed that Lebanon should reject “submission and humiliation.”

“Saudi Arabia stirred the latest crisis with Lebanon and we want things to calm down,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech marking Hizbullah’s Martyr Day.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday noted that he is “dealing positively and openly with the challenges,” while pointing out that there are “limits” for his flexibility.

“It is true that I am dealing positively and openly with the challenges, no matter their magnitude, and I’m giving discussion and dialogue their maximum capacity, but it is also true that dialogue stops at the limits of national and personal beliefs from which I will never deviate,” Miqati said at a ceremony in Tripoli.

Israel has warned Hizbullah against initiating any military action, as it announced that it is willing to offer “concessions” in the negotiations over offshore gas and oil resources.

“We don’t fear Hizbullah’s military power and if it decides to attack us, it will pay a hefty price along with Lebanon,” Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath TV quoted a senior Israeli security source as saying.

High-level sources from the March 8 alliance considered President Michel Aoun’s tweet as an indirect accusation to Hizbullah over the Beirut port blast, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said Thursday.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri responded to the tweet that targeted the Shiite duo and indirectly "incriminated" Hizbullah as well, the newspaper said.

The stance of Hizbullah and Amal Movement on not taking part in Cabinet sessions before the removal of Judge Tarek Bitar has not changed, a media report said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati is in the picture of this stance, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources.

Arab League Assistant Secretary-General Hossam Zaki has said that the Lebanese officials are “keen on doing what it takes to serve Lebanon’s interests.”

He pointed out, in a televised interview, that the Lebanese leaders’ stance can break down the wall between Lebanon and the Gulf, “despite Hizbullah’s objection.”

Saudi Arabia will limit the visas it issues for Lebanese nationals to only cover humanitarian cases, MTV said Thursday, which will escalate the diplomatic row between Beirut and Riyadh.

A security source in the Kuwait also said Wednesday the country is to limit the number of visas it issues for Lebanese nationals.

Cypriot police has said a boatload of 61 migrants thought to be from Syria and Lebanon, including 28 children, were escorted to shore in Paphos, on island's east coast.

Data showed European Union member Cyprus was facing "demographic change" and "acute socio-economic effects" as a result the migrant crisis, said government spokesperson Marios Pelekanos.