Speaker Nabih Berri has announced that the sea border demarcation deal with Israel “does not require a debate in parliament because it is not an agreement with Israel.”

Berri added, in remarks to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, that he has asked parliament’s general secretariat to distribute the deal’s text to MPs so that they take note of it, following calls by some lawmakers for discussing it in parliament.

Lebanon and Israel said they have struck a "historic" deal over a maritime border dispute involving offshore gas fields after years of U.S.-mediated talks, in a step that facilitates hydrocarbon production.

Here's what we know of the agreement:

Paris was contacting both U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein and Hezbollah to push for a resolution in the maritime border negotiations, media reports said.

LBCI reported that French President Emmanuel Macron has asked French multinational energy and petroleum company TotalEnergies to expedite the gas exploration in the Qana field and to compensate Israel from the company's share.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna met Friday morning with President Michel Aoun, Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Colonna had arrived Thursday evening in Beirut to meet with top Lebanese officials.

In an interview with LBCI, U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein has hailed a U.S.-brokered maritime border deal between Lebanon and Israel.

Hochstein said the deal is "an agreement that could be credited for preventing chaos and further conflict throughout the region."

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the resolution of the maritime boundary dispute between Lebanon and Israel.

In a statement he said that he strongly believes "this encouraging development can promote increased stability in the region and enhanced prosperity for the Lebanese and Israeli peoples."

President Michel Aoun said Thursday that Lebanon has formally approved the U.S.-mediated maritime border deal with Israel.

"This indirect agreement responds to Lebanese demands and maintains all our rights," Aoun said in an address to the nation.

U.S. Ambassador Dorothy Shea met Thursday with Internal Security Forces chief Major General Imad Othman on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the signing of the first letter of agreement between the United States, through the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), and the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF), on October 5, 2007.

Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati has informed Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi that he would leave the country if Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil asks his supporters to protest in the streets, sources said.

The sources, close to a senior government official, told al-Liwaa newspaper that Mikati considered that "threatening with protests will not benefit Lebanon's stability."

President Michel Aoun will make an address to the nation on Thursday regarding the sea border demarcation deal that has been reached with Israel, Speaker Nabih Berri’s adviser Ali Hamdan said.

“President Michel Aoun called the parliament speaker to hold consultations and he (Aoun) informed him of U.S. President Joe Biden’s message,” Hamdan said in a TV interview.