Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Monday against widening the dispute over the electricity project, stressing that a breakthrough must be achieved to solve this vital issue that concerns all the Lebanese, As Safir newspaper reported.

“It should be an issue that unites (all the Lebanese) not divides them,” Berri told his visitors.

A delegation from the Special Tribunal for Lebanon held talks with Premier Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail on Monday, media reports said.

MTV said the delegation most probably discussed with Miqati the funding of the court. However, there was no information about the delegation or the nature of the meeting.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi noted Sunday that his visit to France, where he arrived Saturday, will allow him to “meet with the top officials of the French administration, in order to analyze together Lebanon’s problems and the changes currently affecting the geopolitical structures of some Middle Eastern nations.”

“These changes are still confusing and preoccupying us, especially that the outcome is still unknown,” al-Rahi said in a sermon at the Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Paris.

The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad accused on Sunday the opposition of seeking to create unrest in Lebanon through executing a foreign agenda in Lebanon.

He said: “The opposition is still delusional in thinking that it can strip the Resistance of its arms.”

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stressed on Sunday that the security situation in Lebanon is “very good”, saying that the real danger lies in the divisions among the people.

He told Voice of Lebanon radio: “The Lebanese should be persuaded that Lebanon is passing through a blissful phase, but politics is affecting the security situation.”

Hizbullah and Iran will not go out of their way in defending the Syrian regime given the international pressure it is being subject to and the likelihood that it will soon be overthrown, diplomatic sources told the daily An Nahar in remarks published on Sunday.

They added that the international pressure on Syria to halt its crackdown against anti-regime protests is also weighing on its allies in Lebanon, especially Hizbullah.

Twelve people were wounded on Friday when clashes broke out between supporters of the Deir al-Qamar and the Tawheed basketball teams, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

Knives and guns were used in the clash that first started as a fistfight between the two sides.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat stated on Saturday that Lebanon has made a pledge to implement international resolutions and it cannot avoid these obligations.

He said: “Lebanon therefore cannot escape funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.”

President Michel Suleiman, Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Najib Miqati, and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat have reached an agreement over the dispute over the electricity file, revealed the daily al-Mustaqbal on Sunday.

The solution calls for allowing the government to control the funding of the draft law that was proposed by Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s recent statements that Lebanon will continue on funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will likely cause a governmental crisis given that Free Patriotic Movement ministers believe that such a decision cannot be taken by the premier, but by the ministers themselves, the majority of which oppose the tribunal, reported the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat on Sunday.

Ministerial sources told the daily that Lebanon is obligated to fund 49 percent of the tribunal’s funds according to United Nations Security Council 1757.