President Michel Aoun held on Tuesday the long anticipated meeting with Saudi King Salman bin Aziz in Riyadh, where talks focused on improving ties between the two countries.

An official welcoming ceremony was organized at al-Yamama Palace, greeting the President and the accompanying delegation.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat was up in arms recently protesting the cabinet's performance and what he believes is “marginalization” of the Druze community, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

The Druze leader's stance stance was evident in a series of tweets in which he protested, what sources close to him described as, “tendency to marginalize,” them.

A Western diplomat at the United Nations in New York stated that reports circulating in Lebanon recently on the possibility of extending the Lebanese army with weapons from Iran, are “inconsistent” with the decisions of the Security Council, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported Tuesday.

The diplomat stressed that Iran cannot extend arms to any side unless the U.N. Security Council decides otherwise, added the daily.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday lauded President Michel Aoun's visit to Saudi Arabia as an “important step,” as he stressed his keenness on “the policy of dialogue” in Lebanon.

The Kataeb Party on Monday accused the government of failing to honor its promise on devising a new electoral law, while slamming what it described as a “rushed” approval of decrees related to offshore oil and gas exploration.

Deputy PM and Health Minister Ghassan Hasbani noted Monday that it is up to President Michel Aoun to decide whether or not to visit Damascus, while pointing out that the Cabinet would debate the thorny issue.

President Michel Aoun arrived Monday in Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip since taking office, starting an Arab tour that will also take him to Qatar and Egypt.

British Ambassador Hugo Shorter hailed on Monday the resumption of the cabinet's work, as he stressed that the UK looks forward to the timely holding of the parliamentary elections.

‘I welcomed the fact that cabinet has already started work, taking key economic and other decisions last week. There is of course much still to do,” said Shorter after meeting Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the Grand Serail.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri will chair a cabinet meeting on Wednesday to continue discussions on the oil and gas excavation file, media reports said Monday.

On Sunday, copies of the cabinet agenda were distributed to the ministers who will convene this time at the Grand Serial instead of at the Presidential Palace.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah mourned on Monday former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a “major supporter” of the resistance during difficult times.

“Yesterday (Sunday) we lost one of the great men in this nation. For us, as the Islamic resistance in Lebanon and for 34 years, he was the protector, supporters and a compassionate father who has always defended us in all difficult circumstances,” said Nasrallah.