Former premier Saad Hariri on Sunday said that Prime Minister Najib Miqati would only resign when he “feels his boss is about to fall.”

Asked by a Twitter user on whether he would ally with Miqati in the 2013 polls if the premier resigned over possible inability to secure the funding of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon by his government, Hariri said: “No.”

The general assembly of the Beirut Bar Association on Sunday elected lawyer Nohad Jabr as the 48th chief of the association, after an electoral battle in which he competed with candidate Antonio al-Hashem, state-run National News Agency reported.

Jabr garnered 2,073 votes as al-Hashem received 1,623, after some 3,773 voters took part in the polls to choose a new chief for the association.

Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel on Sunday vowed that “Lebanon’s spring will go on,” noting that “the sacrifices of all the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution … had paved the way for the Arab Spring.”

Speaking after a mass held at the St. Antonios Church in Jdeideh to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the assassination of his son, ex-industry minister Pierre Gemayel, the Phalange Party leader said: “As much as the tragedy is big and the wound is deep, this anniversary is a motivation for each one of us to preserve the values for which Pierre was martyred.”

Former Premier Saad Hariri stressed on the occasion of ex-Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel’s assassination on Sunday that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will achieve justice and end the era of organized crime.

The anniversary “is an occasion to stress to the martyr, Pierre Amin Gemayel, that the international tribunal continues its work to hold the killers accountable, achieve justice and end the epoch of organized political crime at a time when the region’s people are on the path of ending the era of killing, tyranny and terrorism,” Hariri said in a statement.

Premier Najib Miqati advised the young generation on Sunday not to become followers as Speaker Nabih Berri urged Lebanese children to spearhead the rejection of political confessionalism.

During the opening of the Parliament of Children, Berri told the youngsters: “Become the vanguards of the people that want to abolish political sectarianism, lower the voting age and call for the participation of women” in political life.

Preparations are underway in Rashaya al-Wadi and nearby towns to welcome President Michel Suleiman who is scheduled to address the nation on the eve of Lebanon’s 68th independence anniversary from the citadel of Rashaya.

Lebanese flags and banners welcoming Suleiman were hoisted at the entrances of the towns and balconies of houses.

Lebanon’s ambassador to the U.N. Nawwaf Salam has stressed that he voted in favor of a General Assembly draft resolution demanding that Iran cooperate with an investigation into an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington.

The Saudi resolution on the plot was passed with 106 votes in favor, nine against and 40 abstentions on Friday. The United States accuses Iran of masterminding the plot.

The Progressive Socialist Party will hold a rally on December 4 on the occasion of the birthday of its slain leader Kamal Jumblat, An Nahar daily reported Sunday.

The newspaper said that the rally will be held in Mukhtara, two days before Jumblat’s birthday on December 6, 1917. He was assassinated on March 16, 1977.

The U.N. Security Council and the European Union will take “measures” against Lebanon if Lebanon doesn’t fund the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, sources close to French decision-makers warned.

The sources told pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in remarks published Sunday that Lebanon’s rejection to pay its 49 percent share would lead to a “troubling situation that would force the international community to take measures … at the level of the Security Council and the EU.”

The moment of truth has come and the course of funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has reached its final stage, visitors quoted Prime Minister Najib Miqati as saying.

The visitors told An Nahar daily published Sunday that Miqati said: “The time that we tried to gain is over and we should take the decision” on the funding.