The head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Mohammed Raad stated on Friday that Hizbullah is committed to all the agreements the Lebanese have reached since the signing of the Taef Accord in 1989.

He said: “We don’t support spiteful and vengeful practices.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized on Friday claims that the new government has garnered several seats for the country’s Christians, saying that the ministers will not serve their portfolios and sect, but only those who appointed them.

He asked before a visiting delegation: “How can the Christians benefit from confronting the decisions of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the international and Arab communities?”

Ten soldiers were injured on Friday when an army Humvee overturned on the Aqoura-Mneitra road in a mountainous area of the district of Jbeil, the National News Agency reported.

NNA said that the Lebanese Red Cross took the wounded soldiers to Notre Dame de Secours hospital in Jbeil.

The first dispute among members of the committee drafting the government policy statement erupted on Thursday between Prime Minister Najib Miqati and members of the Free Patriotic Movement, reported Al-Liwaa newspaper on Friday.

It centered on Miqati’s opposition to Ministers Walid al-Daouq and Jebran Bassil joining the committee.

Former chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis has accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of ordering the assassination of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri for allegedly seeking to topple his regime.

Mehlis said in an interview with the German radio Deutsche Welle on Thursday that Assad ordered Hariri’s Feb. 2005 killing after Damascus “suspected that he was seeking to topple the Syrian regime and disarm Hizbullah in cooperation with France and U.S.”

The cabinet of Premier Najib Miqati is not expected to take decisions on major appointments in state institutions except for the renewal of Central Bank governor Riyad Salameh’s mandate, ministerial sources said.

The sources told An Nahar daily published Friday that the renewal of Salameh for a fourth term will be made as soon as the government receives parliament’s vote of confidence.

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet will head to Beirut on Tuesday to follow-up the investigation into the abduction of seven Estonian tourists in the Bekaa valley in March.

An Nahar newspaper reported on Friday that Paet will visit Lebanon to get the latest updates on the probe into the kidnapping and the location of the abductees.

The committee tasked with drafting the new cabinet’s policy statement agreed on its general framework and discussed controversial issues such as Lebanon’s international commitments and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, PM Najib Miqati’s sources said.

The sources told al-Mustaqbal daily on Friday that the committee agreed in its first meeting that each minister would prepare his own vision on the ministerial statement and would propose it during the next session.

Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Syrian Social National Party chief MP Assaad Hardan have said that the new majority should be fully responsible in making much anticipated achievements.

A joint statement said that Nasrallah met with Hardan, who was accompanied by Qassem Saleh, in the presence of Hizbullah official Mahmoud Qomati.

A high-ranking Lebanese army delegation headed by Maj. Gen. Abdel Rahman Shehaitly is holding talks with top U.S. officials during a routine visit to Washington, An Nahar daily reported Friday.

The newspaper said that the delegation met on Wednesday with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Jacob Walles, and Colin Kahl, who is the deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East.