French President Francois Hollande is expected to arrive in Lebanon on Sunday in a bid to emphasize France's support for President Michel Suleiman as the “national unity guardian”, as well to emphasize the necessity of dialogue among Lebanese factions, the daily An Nahar said Saturday.

Hollande's visit will last for three hours. He is keen to make this visit to express his country's support to Suleiman, whom France considers the “guardian of national unity,” the daily added.

Preparations are underway among the government forces to approve the funding of the new wages scale, which will likely take place during a cabinet session on Wednesday, reported the daily An Nahar on Saturday.

A meeting to that end was held recently between Prime Minister Najib Miqati, concerned ministers, and Central Bank Governor Riyad Salameh at the Grand Serail.

Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh on Friday said one should not ask who killed Intelligence Bureau chief Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan but rather who “betrayed” him.

“We must not ask who killed Wissam al-Hasan but rather who betrayed Wissam al-Hasan, and usually those who betray are the allies,” said Franjieh in an interview on al-Manar television.

The Directorate General of Internal Security Forces on Friday announced that it is conducting the necessary investigations in order to identify those who attacked its checkpoint in the border town of Arsal and wounded 12 policemen on Thursday.

“A verbal clash erupted when the members of the checkpoint asked unidentified individuals about the name of a wounded man they were trying to transport via the Hmeid Valley in Arsal's barren mountains after he was injured in clashes in Syria,” said a statement issued by the ISF.

President Michel Suleiman denounced on Friday the attack against security forces members in the border town of Arsal in eastern Lebanon, calling on armed forces to step up the security measures in the area.

“Whatever the reasons and the motives behind the incident... This act is never justified,” Suleiman said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi condemned on Friday political action aimed at achieving personal gains and obstructing the functioning of state institutions.

“The church condemns all political performance that is solely limited to achieving personal gains at the expense of the public interest and that aims at obstructing state institutions … in search for power,” al-Rahi said in his opening statement of a seminar held in Bkirki.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat described on Friday a decision to postpone parliamentary sessions as “excellent.”

“All efforts should be exerted to safeguard Lebanon,” Jumblat said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Another Hizbullah fighter, Haidar Mahmoud Zeineddine, was killed in the fight lingering in Syria, and was laid to rest on Thursday in the southern city of Nabatieh, An-Nahar daily reported.

Hizbullah lamented Zeineddine and said that he was killed in the line of his”'Jihadist” duty.

Calls for the change of Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government coupled with attempts to avoid a vacuum brought on by a change of leadership have led to a conviction by the different political parties that the process should be slow, political and diplomatic sources said Friday.

Contacts between President Michel Suleiman and leaders of both the March 8 and March 14 coalitions in addition to western officials have been lately focusing on the “change of the government in a calm way so as not to affect Miqati's future,” the sources told al-Joumhouria daily.

French President Francois Hollande is set to arrive in Beirut on Sunday for a three-hour visit to meet with his Lebanese counterpart President Michel Suleiman, As Safir newspaper reported.

A diplomatic source told the newspaper published on Friday that the “significance of this visit is that it comes amid the delicate situation that Lebanon and the region are passing through.”