All endeavors exerted so far to lineup a new Cabinet in Lebanon have failed to break the stalemate hampering the formation, media reporters said on Friday.

More than 1,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon’s border towns of al-Qaa and Arsal will be repatriated to Syria under a “Hizbullah mechanism to help refugees return home, in coordination with Lebanese authorities and Damascus,” media reports said on Friday.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri arrived Thursday in the Spanish capital Madrid on a one-day work visit, his office said.

Hariri will meet with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez and will also sponsor a graduation ceremony for the IE Business School in Madrid where he will deliver a speech, the office said in a statement.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has called on President Michel Aoun to put an end to what he called “Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil's nonstop clashes with everyone.”

“There is a very deplorable situation... Whenever we and other parties exert efforts to pacify the situations, Bassil decides to talk and blow up the situation,” Geagea said in an interview with Kuwait's al-Rai newspaper to be published Friday.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh reassured Thursday that the financial situation in the country is “stable,” dismissing rumors about the Lebanese pound.

“The numbers show that the growth rate for this year is estimated at 2% and that the financial situation is stable. Anything else being said is not based on correct numerical data,” Salameh announced after talks with President Michel Aoun in Baabda.

Speaker Nabih Berri has tasked on Thursday a committee of experts to prepare a draft law aiming at legalizing medicinal marijuana, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

A meeting between Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil on the sidelines of a parliament meeting early this week, “did not led to an agreement” on the facilitation of the Cabinet formation, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported on Thursday.

In light of reports that relations have took a “strained” turn between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, the latter refuted the claims and assured that his ties with the President are "strong," al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported on Thursday.

The head of Hizbullah's parliamentary bloc has hailed the “political role” of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, amid a war of words between the speaker's AMAL Movement and controversial MP Jamil al-Sayyed.

Al-Sayyed, a former chief of Lebanon's General Security agency, was elected as a representative for the Baalbek-Hermel region after running on an electoral list formed by both Hizbullah and AMAL.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced Wednesday that he would call for a parliamentary “consultative session” within a week should the government formation process fail to achieve progress.

“So far, there has been no new development in the cabinet formation process. We've been waiting for two months and no progress has been made,” Berri told lawmakers during the weekly Ain el-Tineh meeting.