March 14 opposition officials warned on Thursday that the coalition will continue to boycott the national dialogue as long as Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government is still in power.

A high-ranking al-Mustaqbal movement official told As Safir newspaper that the opposition's stance hasn't changed.

The Lebanese cabinet announced on Wednesday that it will resume discussions on the new wage scale on December 10.

This decision was announced during the cabinet's meeting in Baabda palace.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun accused the Mustaqbal Movement and its allies of “oppressing” Christian factions in Lebanon through their practices over the parliamentary electoral law.

He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: “Its allies, the Lebanese Forces and Phalange Party, are unjustly treating other Christian powers in Lebanon.”

Speaker Nabih Berri questioned on Wednesday the recent political debates over the extension of the term of the current parliament.

His visitors quoted as saying: “Attention should instead be focused on the resumption of parliament meetings.”

The March 14 General Secretariat renewed on Wednesday its position to boycott the national dialogue “in light of Hizbullah's insistence to make light of the Baabda Declaration” and refusal to discuss its possession of arms.

It said in a statement after its weekly meeting: “Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent announcement that the party is willing to fire its rockets without consulting the Lebanese state only justifies our decision to boycott the dialogue.”

Social Affairs Minister Wael Abou Faour on Wednesday did not rule out setting up camps for Syrian refugees in Lebanon if the number of the displaced sees a dramatic rise.

“The choice of camps is not under discussion but it is not ruled out” in case of a large wave of refugees escaping the fighting between regime troops and rebels, Abou Faour told reporters following a meeting between Prime Minister Najib Miqati and U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos at the Grand Serail.

Unknown assailants kidnapped on Wednesday Dr. Mona Kanj from her house in the Chouf village of Meshref, media reports said.

According to Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5), three gunmen broke into the house of Ali Sharafeddine, Kanj's husband, and forced him along with his wife and their building janitor to head to the town of Bchamoun.

Israeli troops on Wednesday crossed the barbed wire in al-Wazzani hills and entered into an area that the Lebanese Army has expressed reservations over, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said the 11-member Israeli unit crossed the technical fence and marched 10 to 15 meters into the disputed area at around 8:00 am.

The Syndicate Coordination Committee staged on Wednesday sit-ins for the second day in a row to protest the cabinet's failure to refer the new wage scale for public employees to the parliament.

Protesters gathered near the Value Added Tax headquarters in Beirut, holding banners demanding the government to meet its demands.

The ambassadors of major powers stressed to Prime Minister Najib Miqati the importance of swiftly resolving the political crisis in Lebanon, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday.

According to the newspaper, the ambassadors reiterated to Miqati before his visit to France the importance of “pressing forward the cabinet change.”