Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour will hold a meeting with his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Muallem to coordinate stances concerning the developments in the Arab world, As Safir newspaper reported on Monday.

Mansour and Muallem will coordinate during a meeting next Saturday in New York the stances of their countries regarding the popular uprisings in the Arab world and the general situation ahead of a meeting at the U.N. Security Council and the General Assembly.

President Michel Suleiman travelled to New York on Monday to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly meeting where he is expected to reject the naturalization of Palestinians in Lebanon and stress the country’s commitment to Security Council resolution 1701.

A high-ranking Lebanese official told As Safir daily that during his speech on Sept. 21, Suleiman will stress the importance of U.N. recognition of the Palestinian state and a fair solution to refugees through their return to their homeland.

The joint parliamentary committees on Monday postponed discussions on the electricity plan to Wednesday, following verbal clashes between the rival March 8 and March 14 MPs.

The draft law will likely be put to a vote during Wednesday’s session, MTV reported.

The head of the parliamentary public works, transportation, energy and waters committee Mohammed Qabbani stressed that the March 14-led opposition will seek to introduce amendments to an electricity draft law during the crucial meeting of parliament’s joint committees on Monday.

In remarks to An Nahar daily, Qabbani said the opposition will insist on its demands to introduce the changes to the bill and make it in harmony with the original draft law that was approved by the government earlier in the month.

Energy Minister Jebran Bassil accused the March 14-led opposition of suffering from “political schizophrenia” for criticizing an electricity draft law that allegedly lacks details about the implementation phases of the $1.2 billion project.

The electricity "farce" should end at the meeting of joint parliamentary committees on Monday either through consensus or voting, Bassil, who is a Free Patriotic Movement official, told As Safir daily.

A mother and her six children were found dead Sunday evening inside their house at Omar bin al-Khattab Street in the Beirut neighborhood of Basta, state-run National News Agency reported.

Nawal Younes 55, Hadi 25, Ameen 23, Maha 20, Manal 18, Zahraa and Zahra 15 were all shot dead at their home while the father was away.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat held a series of meetings in Paris with a number of French officials on the situation in Lebanon and the region, reported the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Sunday.

His held talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s diplomatic advisor, Jean-David Levitte, his advisor for Middle East affairs, Nicolas Gallet, and ambassador Patrice Paoli.

The head of the Phalange Party Amin Gemayel traveled to Saudi Arabia on Saturday, in a first visit of its kind by a Lebanese official since the failure of the Saudi-Syrian initiative that was aimed at ending Lebanon’s political crisis in 2010, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

Gemayel, who is accompanied by his son MP Sami Gemayel, was invited to the Kingdom by Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri.

Joint parliamentary committees are expected to convene on Monday in order to discuss the electricity draft law that was approved by the government on September 7, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

The draft law however was handed over to the committees on Thursday without the amendments that were introduced to it by the cabinet.

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour revealed on Saturday that a team has succeeded in devising a draft law on granting expatriates the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

He told Sawt al-Mada radio: “The file has been finalized and we will refer it to cabinet in the next few days.”