Twenty-eight European Union foreign affairs ministers who gathered Monday in Brussels adopted a number of conclusions on Lebanon.

A UN delegation is currently visiting Lebanon to conduct a Strategic Review of UNIFIL. This is pursuant to a request made by the UN Security Council in its resolution 2305 of August 2016 in order to ensure that the Mission is configured most appropriately to fulfill its mandated tasks, a statement said on Monday.

A number of public school professors in the economic capital of Ivory coast, Abidjan protested against the government's failure to pay their salaries, and have therefore confined several Lebanese and French students at private schools to pressure the government into meeting their demands, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

Information said the protesters have beaten up some students and locked them up in lower floors at the schools, NNA added.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri praised the closing statement of the Middle East peace conference in Paris, which renewed the commitment to the two-state solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

On Twitter Hariri said: “We thank France for organizing the Mideast Peace and we thank President François Hollande for his just and courageous stance”.

The Kataeb party said on Monday it took the right decision when it decided to stay out of the government in light of what it described as fight over distribution of shares among political parties.

“In light of the latest developments as for the electoral law, oil and gas decrees, the Costa Brava crisis, the birds threatening flights safety and the corruption in various state administrations, it was right to stay in the opposition side,” a senior Kataeb source told al-Joumhouria daily on condition of anonymity.

Hizbullah has renewed adherence to endorsing an electoral law based on proportional representation system, which head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad dubbed as the “rightful” decision.

Holding the parliamentary elections based on proportional representation system is the “best formulation to achieve justice and efficiency in parliamentary representation,” he said.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that the upcoming parliamentary elections will be held on time based on the 1960 law because “time is short” for political parties to approve a new law to govern the elections, al-Akhbar daily reported Monday.

“The elections will be staged based on the 1960 law. Political parties do not have any time left to approve any other law,” Berri told his visitors.

Saudi Arabia has set some conditions in return for reconsidering the activation of military and economic aid programs for Lebanon that have been halted in 2016, media reports said Monday.

Al-Joumhouria daily said that senior Saudi officials told President Michel Aoun during his visit to the Kingdom last week, that in order for SA to revitalize relations with Lebanon, it is crucial that the term of Aoun demonstrates “independence” away from any Lebanese parties' attempt to control it.

Activists from the You Stink campaign and the civil society staged a protest Sunday inside Beirut's airport against the nearby Costa Brava garbage landfill and the manner in which Lebanese authorities have addressed the presence of seagulls threatening flight safety around the airport.

Four people were wounded Sunday in an armed clash in the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, media reports said.