President Michel Suleiman will head the Lebanese delegation at a Kuwaiti summit for donor countries, which will be held at the end of January, reported the Kuwaiti al-Anba daily on Saturday.

An official Lebanese source told the daily that the decision was made soon after the Lebanese government approved a plan to tackle the case of refugees heading to Lebanon from Syria.

The Christian summit at Bkirki on Friday was “positive”, with bilateral contacts being held between the Lebanese Forces and Free Patriotic Movement preceding the talks, reported al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday.

It added that the statement that followed the meeting was issued “by Bkirki and not the gatherers,” revealing that this will not be the last Christian summit.

Phalange Party MP Sami Gemayel restated his party's rejection of the 1960 electoral law, and reiterated approval of the Orthodox Gathering electoral draft law proposal, An Nahar daily said Saturday.

“We fully back the Orthodox Gathering draft proposal,” said Gemayel.

A statement issued by Bkirki after a Christian summit on Friday called for agreeing on an electoral law that secures fair and just representation for all Lebanese communities.

"The participants in the summit were Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel and Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh,” the statement said, remarking that Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea was absent for security reasons.

The cafeteria at the Lebanese University's Hadath branch was closed on Friday due to the various violations being committed there, reported the National News Agency.

The violations included the selling of waterpipes in violation of the non-smoking law imposed in the country.

The spokesman of the military wing of the Meqdad clan has been released on bail, reported MTV on Friday.

It said that the General Prosecution agreed to released Maher al-Meqdad on a bail of L.L.15 million.

A Progressive Socialist Party delegation held talks on Thursday with former Prime Minister Omar Karami on party leader MP Walid Jumblat's initiative to persuade rival factions to return to the national dialogue.

Transportation and Public Works Minister Ghazi al-Aridi said after the meeting: “Our consultations with various factions is based on the initiative, which highlights the authority of the state in resolving disputes.”

A parliamentary subcommittee completed discussions on electoral draft-laws, including the number of MPs, and will hold a meeting next week to announce the minutes of the deliberations, its chairman MP Robert Ghanem announced Friday.

“The minutes of the previous meetings will be announced during a session on Monday afternoon aimed at finding common ground on an electoral draft-law,” Ghanem told reporters in parliament.

Defense counsel for the four accused Hizbullah members filed their Pre-Trial Briefs this week, challenging the Prosecutor’s allegations about the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, announced the Special Tribunal for Lebanon on Friday.

The Defense disputes the Prosecution’s account of the attack and the alleged involvement of the four accused, it said in a statement.

Lebanon will ask for 180 million dollars from Arab countries to assist refugees from Syria who have fled the turmoil in their country, An Nahar daily reported on Friday.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour, who travels to Cairo on Sunday to chair the meeting of the Arab League Ministerial Council, has sent the organization's secretary-general Nabil al-Arabi a letter and a memo detailing the Lebanese request, a diplomatic source in the Egyptian capital said.