The European Union has allocated this year €229 million to reinforce reforms and economic development in Lebanon.

In a statement, the delegation of the EU to Lebanon said that the EU "continues to support Lebanon and its people during challenging socio-economic conditions and allocates this year €229 million to reinforce much needed reforms and economic development."

The Iranian embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday lamented that “Lebanon’s enemies” have prevented Tehran from assisting the Lebanese people amid the current crisis.

“Iran had several times proposed to offer aid to the brotherly Lebanese people to help them overcome their crisis, but Lebanon’s enemies obstructed and exerted pressure to prevent things from reaching happy endings under frail excuses and alibis,” the embassy said in a tweet.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that the country’s new president must “act 180 degrees contrary to what we witnessed over the past six years, especially as to returning the strategic decision to the state.”

“The new president must also fight corruption fiercely, not through statements, and must not let his people and those around him commit major corruption with every sunrise,” Geagea added, in an interview with Saudi newspaper Okaz.

Twelve lawmakers from the Free Patriotic Movement-led Strong Lebanon bloc on Tuesday submitted a draft law aimed at “forming a parliamentary panel of inquiry into the offenses committed by Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh.”

“The Lebanese judiciary has refrained from prosecuting him despite the lawsuits filed against him in several foreign nations, and in the file of financial transfers to abroad,” the bloc said.

The joint parliamentary committees convened Tuesday to resume discussing the capital control draft law.

"We have specifically modified the needed exemptions in the capital control," Bou Saab said after the meeting.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Tuesday held talks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Speaking to LBCI television after the meeting, the premier said he briefed the Speaker on his “positive” meetings in Saudi Arabia on the sidelines of the Arab-Chinese summit.

There will be no dialogue on Thursday, the Berri-owned NBN TV said Tuesday.

The parliamentary session will be "exclusively for electing a president", the media outlet said, as the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement refused to participate in a dialogue that might have replaced the presidential election session.

The Lebanese Forces said Tuesday that they will not participate in a parliamentary dialogue that Speaker Nabih Berri might call for.

Berri had announced last week that he would turn Thursday’s presidential election session into a parliamentary dialogue if the blocs agree to such a move.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil is trying to promote a number of presidential candidates, topped by Jihad Azour, who served as finance minister in Fouad Saniora’s first government, a media report said.

“Bassil has endorsed Azour for several considerations, most notably that he is a figure that was previously considered to be close to ex-PM Fouad Saniora and the March 14 camp, and accordingly the FPM chief thinks that a part of this camp might support him,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday.

The parliamentary dialogue that Speaker Nabih Berri has called for is likely to take place, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Monday.

“Christian” parliamentary sources meanwhile told the daily that they have information that “a political settlement to elect a president is being prepared due to the international and Arab pressures and efforts.”