Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb stressed on Monday that only partnership would guarantee the success of the committee tasked with resolving the two-month long waste crisis.

“Let's give it a chance before it's too late,” he told reporters in a press conference following the meeting of the Parliamentary Environment Committee.

Lebanon is expected to participate on Tuesday in a conference of states hosting Syrian refugees in Brussels, the head of the delegation, MP Michel Moussa, said.

Moussa told An Nahar newspaper published on Monday that he will call in his speech for providing Lebanon with promised assistance to confront the refugee crisis and to redistribute the displaced Syrians on countries capable of hosting them.

British Prime Minister David Cameron inspected on Monday Syrian refugees in the eastern town of Terbol and later met with PM Tammam Salam to throw his support behind the Lebanese government.

Cameron said at a joint press conference with Salam at the Grand Serail that the UK will continue to assist Lebanon against the Islamic State extremist group and to provide aid over the refugee crisis.

Change is on the Way, is a new campaign that protesters kicked off on Saturday calling for the recovery of public lands and the free access to beaches that became private property, the state-run National News Agency said.

The movement started in Beirut’s Zaitunay Bay waterfront, where protesters took food and drinks to enjoy on the wooden corniche.

The army arrested on Saturday two Lebanese nationals after an attempt to assault the customs chief at the Rafic Hariri International Airport, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Several individuals including, Tarek Hisham al-Sabeaa and another man from the same family, intruded into the office of the customs chief at the airport Samer Diaa and tried to assault him, NNA said.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi voiced calls on Saturday on all the protesters not to be led astray by little demands and to emphasize on raising their voices in calling for the election of a president.

“All the protesters should not be distracted by small demands for the resignation of a minister or other. They must focus on demands to elect a president,” said Rahi on his second day tour to Mount Lebanon.

Attempts to put a spoke in the wheels of the waste management plan seem to carry on, which pressed Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb, the plan’s sponsor, to hold a series of contacts in order to put it on the track of implementation.

“Although the plan was able to garner political, technical and financial cover, but that did not stop some parties from hampering it,” ministerial sources told An Nahar daily on Saturday.

The General Security arrested a Syrian national on charges of modifying and armor plating vehicles in favor of terrorist groups in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported on Friday.

The suspect provided logistic help for the groups and had constant contacts with them when they carried out attacks against the Lebanese army in the town and assaulted, killed and kidnapped its members, NNA added.

Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awad Asiri emphasized on Friday that his country is keen on Lebanon's stability, hoping that the dialogue among rival political parties would lead to fruition and elect a head of state after a vacuum at the post.

“Saudi Arabia is keen on Lebanon's stability. We hope that the dialogue succeeds in electing a new president to enhance the constitutional institutions,” the state-run National News Agency quoted the ambassador as saying.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi voiced calls on the protesters demanding a solution to the trash crisis to pour their efforts in calling for election of a president.

“Put right your demands and pour your efforts into one major request which is electing a president as soon as possible,” said al-Rahi from Aley where he is on a three-day visit to the region.