Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday reassured that “the country will remain coherent, glorious and resilient.”

“No one will be able to defeat it,” Mikati added, during a ceremony to inaugurate Middle East Airlines’ new general administration building.

A list with the names of the Lebanese banking and financial officials who will be questioned in the coming days in Beirut by three European judicial delegations has been leaked to the media.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper, the list has been received by State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat.

The upcoming investigations by a French judicial delegation to Lebanon will not be limited to Riad Salameh’s case but will also tackle the Beirut port blast file, media reports said.

“The memos of the European authorities included the names of investigative judges that are not working on the file of the central bank governor, especially the French memo which included the name of the French judge investigating the Beirut port bombing crime, who asked for a January 24 appointment with Attorney General Sabbouh Suleiman, who is tasked by the public prosecution to oversee the file of the port investigations,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Monday.

The first European judicial delegation that will question senior Lebanese banking and financial officials will arrive in Beirut on Monday and will be followed by two other delegations over the next 10 days, media reports said.

“Two delegations from Germany and Luxembourg will separately arrive first and will be followed days later by a French delegation,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported Monday.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has asked officials in Hezbollah to resume the communication with the Free Patriotic Movement leadership, al-Akhbar newspaper reported Monday.

The daily said that the talks will resume soon, following a decision by the Shura Council.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has described Lebanon as “a boat lost at sea,” due to the parties’ failure to elect a new president despite having held ten electoral sessions.

In remarks to Annahar newspaper published Monday, Berri said he was feeling “disgusted” by the fact that the ten presidential election sessions that were held last year had failed to produce a new president.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday called on the Hezbollah-led Axis of Defiance and Speaker Nabih Berri to “draw lessons” from the 15 rounds that were held to elect a US House speaker, rejecting what he called “unconstitutional” dialogue over the election of a new president.

Contacts between State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat and judicial authorities in France, Germany and Luxembourg have led to an agreement on a mechanism through which judicial delegations from the three countries will question banking officials in Beirut in a money laundering case related to Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, media reports said.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut on Friday announced that U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea is still serving as her country's ambassador to Lebanon, following media reports related to her nomination by the White House for the post of U.S. Deputy Representative to the U.N.

"Embassy Beirut is proud of (U.S.) President (Joe) Biden’s nomination of Ambassador Shea to serve as the U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations," U.S. Embassy Beirut Spokesperson Julia Groeblacher said in a statement.

The Free Patriotic Movement’s withdrawal from the 2006 memorandum of understanding with Hezbollah is unlikely, a senior FPM official said, noting that “there is no strategic alternative to the MoU in both Mirna Chalouhi and Haret Hreik.”