A meeting chaired by Speaker Nabih Berri of parliament’s bureau and heads and rapporteurs of parliamentary committees on Monday will test his ability to resolve the dispute between the March 8 and 14 forces on extra-budgetary spending.

A parliamentary source told al-Liwaa daily that discussions will focus on the agenda of the March 5 parliamentary session and the possibility to launch the work of a joint legislative-ministerial committee to resolve the controversial spending.

Speaker Nabih Berri is preparing for a conference set to gather the religious leaders of different sects in Lebanon and the region to stress the importance of dialogue among all religions.

According to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, the conference will tackle the issue of reducing emigration due to confessional causes.

Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn stressed Sunday that “Lebanon’s people, army and resistance are an invincible fortress in the face of Israel,” noting that the Lebanese "will never forget that Iran stood by them in great difficulties," during talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.

Ghosn also said that Israel would fear Iran's reaction, should it consider moving in a hostile way against any regional country.

Two people were killed and two others injured in a traffic accident on the coastal highway of al-Jiyyeh, south of Beirut, the National News Agency reported on Sunday.

NNA identified the dead as Hanaa Ali Ayyash and Ghassan Shehab al-Alayli.

Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Norman Farrell will be the next Special Tribunal for Lebanon Prosecutor, al-Arabiya reported on Sunday.

Diplomatic sources told the New York and United Nations Bureau Chief of al-Arabiya, Talal al-Haj, that only one name has been sent to Prime Minister Najib Miqati for the vacant position of the STL Prosecutor after Daniel Bellemare’s mandate comes to an end on March 1.

The Lebanese political parties have clinched an unannounced deal to keep the security situation under control despite their political differences, diplomatic sources said Sunday.

The sources told the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa daily that despite an “incoherent” politician situation in Lebanon, the politicians have agreed to keep stability amid the violence and the crackdown on protestors in neighboring Syria.

Hizbullah has accumulated 45,000 missiles that pose a threat to Israel, a senior defense ministry official has said, claiming that Iran and Syria supplied the missiles to the party through ships, planes and trains.

The Israeli defense ministry’s director of policy and political-military affairs, Amos Gilad, told the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Rai over the weekend that Lebanon's leaders are unaware of these developments, creating a vacuum that has given rise to a new, independent entity he dubbed "Hizbullastan."

Sources close to Premier Najib Miqati said Sunday that the appointments of civil servants would take back their course after they caused the suspension of cabinet sessions on Feb. 1.

In remarks to An Nahar newspaper, the sources said that Miqati is working on speeding the process of appointments through meetings with the Civil Service Council.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc leader Fouad Saniora reiterated his demand for parliament’s legitimization of extra-budgetary spending away from the “logic of vengeance” as a meeting scheduled to be held on Monday by the parliament bureau and the heads and secretaries of committees will seek to settle the issue.

Saniora held talks with President Michel Suleiman at Baabda palace on Saturday. His sources told An Nahar daily on Sunday that the two officials discussed extra-budgetary spending and Speaker Nabih Berri’s pledge to resolve the issue before a legislative session on March 5.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat described Syrian President Bashar Assad as a “megalomaniac,” calling for the arming of the Syrian opposition.

Jumblat told the French newspaper Le Monde that his last meeting with Assad was “surreal.”