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.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said on Saturday that the war is ongoing in Syria because the stated demands for reform are not the real motives behind war.

“It is important to respond to the international media outlets that are reporting incidents opposite to the facts on ground,” Aoun said during a meeting with a European Catholic delegation.

Speaker Nabih Berri said on Saturday that Lebanon will overcome the crises and maintain its stability.

“Lebanon will overcome crises and preserve its security and stability,” Berri said during a dinner banquet in honor of Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer.

The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad said on Saturday that adopting the proportional representation in the new electoral law is “reasonable,” noting that Hizbullah hasn’t taken the final decision concerning the matter.

“In principle it is reasonable but there’s also a need for a balanced representation system. However, we haven’t taken yet our final decision,” Raad told al-Manar TV in an interview.

President Michel Suleiman discussed on Saturday with Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer the importance of developing the bilateral relations between the two countries, asking assistance to pressure Israel to implement U.N. Security Council resolution 1701.

Suleiman stressed during a meeting with Temer at Baabda Palace on the importance of reforming the United Nations and the World Trade Organizations.

Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi said on Saturday that the developments in the region are more important than those who are seeking to entertain themselves on twitter.

“Those who are seeking to entertain themselves (with the developments in the country), or on twitter… have no place in this battle (that is going on in the region),” Moussawi said.

Phalange party leader Amin Gemayel stressed on Saturday that the March 14-led opposition stances are to safeguard Lebanon against those who are conspiring against it.

“We are not only defending the rights of a certain group but the rights of all the Lebanese citizens … and the sovereignty of the country,” Gemayel said during a meeting with a delegation of residents of the town of Tarshish.

Contacts between Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and the parliamentary majority have not been severed, stated a source from the majority to al-Joumhouriya newspaper in remarks published on Saturday.

It added however that contact between the Druze leader and Damascus has been severed for the time being.