Minister of Social Affairs Hector Hajjar and Minister of the Displaced Issam Sharafeddine will soon visit Damascus to meet with their Syrian counterparts over the repatriation of the Syrian refugees, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported Monday.

It added that Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, who had said he would not head the ministerial delegation to Syria, has called his Syrian counterpart, Faisal al-Miqdad, and agreed with him to meet soon.

The Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee held a session Monday to discuss the issue of the creation of an oil and gas sovereign fund.

“We discussed the report of the sovereign fund subcommittee and endorsed its content in terms of the commitment to the independence of its management and the transparency of its accounts and foreign investments,” Committee chief MP Ibrahim Kanaan said after the meeting.

Representatives of KSA, Qatar, Egypt, France and the U.S. met Monday in Doha to try to find a solution to the Lebanese presidential impasse, before French Envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian's return to Lebanon.

Media reports said the talks were "positive" and "serious in seeking solutions" and that the attendees supported Le Drian's proposal for a dialogue to break the presidential impasse.

Central Bank Third Vice Governor Salim Chahine has confirmed that there will be no “mass resignation” of the bank’s four vice governors.

In remarks to Annahar newspaper published Monday, Chahine also said that the vice governors will not accept to “keep using depositors’ funds to cover the expenses of the state and the Sayrafa platform.”

Former General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim has confirmed that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea had visited him days ago and that the discussions “tackled the situations in the South and the issue of the tents” erected by Hezbollah inside and near the Israeli-occupied Shebaa Farms.

A Lebanese depositor broke into Mawarid bank in Antelias on Monday to demand his trapped savings.

Edgard Awwad stormed the bank with his thirteen years old son and left after he received his entire savings, a sum of $15000.

A Qatari envoy will visit Lebanon in the next few days to hold discussions over the stalled presidential file, a political source said.

Eyes will turn Monday to the meeting of the five-nation committee on Lebanon that will be held in the Qatari capital Doha.

Among meandering alleyways in the historic market of Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, cobblers and menders are doing brisk business, as an economic crisis revives demand for once-fading trades.

MP Qassem Hashem and a number of journalists suffered suffocation injuries after Israeli troops fired smoke grenades at them as they were touring the border near the occupied Shebaa Farms on Saturday, the National News Agency said.