Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Monday warned a U.S. delegation against any further delay in the U.S.-mediated talks between Lebanon and Israel to demarcate their maritime border.

“There is no more time for procrastination and delay in the demarcation of the sea boundary and for allowing the companies that won the tenders to start their work,” Berri told a delegation from the American Task Force for Lebanon, which was accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea.

Hezbollah MP Mohammed Raad has said that the Lebanese are the masters of their country.

"We are the ones who decide on our policies in a way that serves the interests of our children and our future generations," Raad said. "We do not choose our policies based on programs that the black chambers prepare for us," he went on to say.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has said that the decision of war and peace is in the hands of Iran and Hezbollah, as long as Lebanon doesn't have a defense strategy.

In a TV interview, Jumblat urged the Arab states to support the army, the Internal Security Forces, and the institutions, which are collapsing.

The Free Patriotic Movement has welcomed, in a statement, the support of the six Arab Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq for Lebanon.

In a joint statement issued after a summit in Jeddah, the leaders of the nine countries had expressed their support for Lebanon's "sovereignty, security, and stability."

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday noted that Lebanon “cannot wait for a long time to extract gas and oil while Israel is already doing so.”

“We call on the United States of America, the mediator country, to finalize the issue with Israel, seeing as Lebanon has offered the utmost limit possible in order to secure the success of the negotiations,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

The leaders of the U.S., the six Arab Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq have expressed their support for Lebanon's "sovereignty, security, and stability, as well as all the reforms necessary to achieve its economic recovery."

A regional summit in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah has brought together U.S. President Joe Biden, the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council as well as Egypt, Jordan and Iraq.

Below is the full text of the summit's closing statement:

The closing statement of the Jeddah summit has called for abiding by the rules of good neighborliness in the region, urging Iran to keep the region free of weapons of mass destruction.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Saturday reiterated that the LF will support Army Commander General Joseph Aoun’s possible presidential nomination if “it turns out that his chances are high.”

“He has run the military institution in a good way and has improved it and acted as a real statesman at its head. And despite pressures from the most senior officials, he did not accept to prevent the army from performing its missions -- which are preserving the border and domestic security,” Geagea said in an interview with the al-Markazia news agency.

The head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, announced Saturday that his group does not “wish for war” with Israel but is “ready and prepared for it,” in connection to the standoff over the maritime border.

“We loudly tell the Israeli enemy that the gas in our exclusive economic zone is our right and we have the priority over the entire world to make benefit of our rights in our waters and gas,” Raad said during a Hezbollah ceremony in the southern town of Adshit.