Thousands of Palestinians are expected to march to southern Lebanon on Sunday in what Fatah commander Munir Maqdah said would be a “peaceful” rally marking the Palestinian "Nakba Day."

The protestors will mark the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba, or catastrophe, when Palestinians were expelled from their land in 1948 following Israel's establishment.

High-ranking March 8 sources refuted claims that the cabinet formation process has gone back to the starting point over crippling demands by the new parliamentary majority.

The sources told An Nahar newspaper in remarks published Saturday that the media and political sources began inventing rumors about an alleged stalemate despite agreement between President Michel Suleiman and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun on the name of the interior minister.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi held talks with Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi in Bkirki on Saturday.

“The Iranian ambassador invited al-Rahi to attend the annual ceremony commemorating the death of Imam Khomeini, commander of the Iranian revolution, in UNESCO,” the National News Agency said.

Routine meetings that Premier-designate Najib Miqati has held with the envoys of the speaker, the Hizbullah leader and the Free Patriotic Movement chief are now in limbo after such talks were not held for the second straight day Friday.

An Nahar daily said Saturday that Miqati waited for answers from MP Ali Hassan Khalil, Hussein Khalil and Jebran Bassil on several questions he had raised to them earlier in the week. However, the three envoys did not visit him at his office on Friday.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat criticized the new majority for its disability to form the cabinet, accusing it of being paralyzed.

Jumblat said on Friday during the opening ceremony of the National Center for Development and Rehabilitation that the politicians are the “retarded” ones for disagreeing over shares in the government while “the country is on the verge of collapse.”

The Syrian green light for the quick formation of the new government in Lebanon began receding, An Nahar daily said Saturday despite insistence by Premier-designate Najib Miqati that he wasn’t being pressured by foreign parties.

Sources following up the formation of the cabinet said that the green light received from Damascus succeeded in finding a solution to the interior ministry deadlock but later brought the cabinet formation crisis to a standstill after flashing orange.

President Michel Suleiman praised on Friday the Christian-Islamic summit held at Bkirki on Thursday saying that it should bolster dialogue and coexistence among Lebanese.

He said during the inauguration of a hall at St. Joseph University in Beirut: “While we fear the consequences the Arab developments may have on their own people, we are satisfied that reforms in these countries are leading to the drafting of laws that Lebanon had adopted since its formation.”

Syrian families fearing fresh violence during anti-regime protests on Friday fled into the area of Wadi Khaled in northern Lebanon, a local official told Agence France Presse.

"Around 50 Syrian families from Homs, Tall Kalakh and Bab al-Sebaa entered Wadi Khaled via the illegal Naoura crossing," Fayez Abdullah, mayor of the village of Amayer in Wadi Khaled, told AFP.

The house of a southerner was damaged on Friday after demining experts disposed of eight cluster bombs in the town of Deir Qanoun-Ras al-Ain in Tyre, the National News Agency said.

NNA said that Hussein Hammoud discovered a cluster bomb at his home’s garden and informed deminers about it. When they searched the area, they found 7 other bombs.

The Higher Islamic Shiite Council’s objections against the Christian-Islamic summit’s closing statement reflected the turbulent political situation in Lebanon and raised questions over the possibility of holding another summit in the future, reported As Safir on Friday.

“Should the summit have been held without an agreement being reached or was it better that it not be held at all?” it asked.