A cabinet session to appoint a new central bank governor was cancelled Thursday due to a lack of quorum.

Only several ministers showed up at the Grand Serail and held a consultation meeting.

The Justice Ministry announced Wednesday that it is preparing to submit to the State Shura Council a request for naming an interim director for the Central Bank, days before the expiry of the term of long-serving Governor Riad Salameh.

The Ministry said its move comes “in light of the developments that might arise over the next two days, to avoid any vacuum in the Central Bank’s governor post and to secure the proper functioning of the financial and monetary facility.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Wednesday after meeting French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian in Maarab that the French diplomat did not discuss presidential names with him.

"We did not discuss new names," Geagea said, stressing that the talks are confidential.

The State Shura Council has rejected the government’s request for borrowing from the Central Bank’s foreign currency reserves, after the bank’s vice governors demanded a legal cover for any such expenditure, media reports said on Wednesday.

According to al-Akhbar newspaper, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has told Central Bank First Vice Governor Wassim Mansouri that if the government failed to name a new governor it would submit to parliament a draft law for legalizing the monthly use of around $200 million from the Central Bank’s obligatory reserves.

A Cabinet session scheduled for Thursday will discuss the possibility of appointing a new Central Bank governor, media reports said.

French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian’s talks with Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Wednesday were characterized by “positive honesty,” the FPM's media department said.

“The French envoy proposed an idea backed by the five nations that had recently met in Doha, under which Le Drian would return in September to restart consultations, from square one and within a rapid and specific timeframe, in order to agree the presidential program that Lebanon needs,” the FPM added.

French special envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian met Wednesday with Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil, as he returns to Lebanon to help resolve divisions that have left the presidency vacant for nearly nine months.

Later on Wednesday, Le Drian met with Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met Wednesday morning with central bank vice-governors, Wassim Mansouri, Bashir Yakzan, Salim Chahine and Alexander Mouradian, in an attempt to find a solution to a looming leadership crisis at the central bank.

Minister of Finance Youssef Khalil, who attended the meeting, said that so far the vice-governors are not inclined to resign.

William Noun and Maria Fares were united by loss after a devastating blast ripped through Lebanon's capital three years ago. Now engaged, the couple pledge to keep fighting for justice.

As they prepare to take their wedding vows, Noun and Fares, both 28, sit at his family's house in the hills northeast of Beirut, surrounded by photographs of Noun's brother who perished in the tragedy.

French special presidential envoy for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian arrived Tuesday in Beirut on a several-day official visit.