A French investigative judge Tuesday issued an international arrest warrant for Lebanon's embattled central bank governor after he didn't show up for questioning in France on corruption charges, a Western diplomat said.

Longtime central bank Gov. Riad Salameh was supposed to appear before French prosecutors Tuesday as part of an ongoing European probe. Lebanese officials have not confirmed receipt of the arrest warrant or commented on the development.

Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry has received a letter threatening European Union sanctions against MPs who fail to attend presidential election sessions, an official source told MTV on Tuesday.

The presidential negotiations between Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea have entered their “final stages,” a media report said on Tuesday.

Bassil and Geagea are in a “race against time, seeing as the Lebanese parties have been informed that the presidential election session should be held shortly after the Arab Summit,” informed sources told al-Liwaa newspaper.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati is willing to lead a ministerial delegation to Syria, Caretaker Minister of the Displaced Issam Sharafeddine said.

Sharafeddine said that Mikati has informed the ministers about his willingness to visit Syria during a consultative ministerial meeting and that the date of the visit will be decided on Monday.

The Lebanese Forces urged Tuesday Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to call for an open-ended election session, instead of obstructing the election of a president.

In a statement, the LF told Berri that, as a speaker, he doesn't have the right to interfere in what the opposition is doing.

The opposition has intensified its meetings to pick a presidential candidate from the nominees who enjoy Bkirki’s approval: Joseph Aoun, Jihaz Azour, Ziad Baroud, Neemat Frem and Salah Honein, informed political sources said.

“Azour and Frem are in the lead over the other candidates,” the sources told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal in remarks published Tuesday.

An Arab league summit in Saudi Arabia will discuss Friday the Lebanese crisis, media reports said.

"The Lebanese file will be one of the main items on the summit's agenda," a diplomatic source told al-Joumhouria, in remarks published Tuesday.

Lebanese international lawyer Chibli Mallat is the best presidential candidate to Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, who says he refuses to endorse a "confrontational" candidate.

"To some Lebanese leaders, the principle of settlement does not exist," Jubmlat said in a televised interview, as he criticized Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and Free Patriotic leader Jebran Bassil for "vetoing" certain presidential candidates.

Qatar has proposed to clear the record of U.S. sanctioned Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil if the latter in return agrees to soften his stance on the presidential nomination of Army chief Gen. Joseph Aoun, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said.

The daily said Monday that Bassil accepted the offer, adding that the Qatari security delegation that visited Lebanon last week, will return to the country after the Arab League meeting in Jeddah.

The foreign threats to impose sanctions on the Lebanese officials who obstruct the presidential vote are what pushed Speaker Nabih Berri to say that “the presidential election should be finalized before June 15 at the latest,” a media report said on Monday.

“There are serious indications about foreign sanctions that are being mulled to be imposed on the obstructors of the presidential vote,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said.