President Michel Suleiman stressed on Friday the importance of the stability Lebanon is experiencing in light of the tense political and security situation in the region.

He urged the Lebanese people, on the 37th anniversary of the eruption of the Lebanese civil war, “to derive lessons from conflicts that disregarded national interests and instead served personal and regional gains.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Friday that the Lebanese must learn from the country’s civil war and resort to serious dialogue in order to avert dangers.

He said in a statement on the 37th anniversary of the eruption of the war: “Only honest and open cooperation between all components of Lebanese society guarantees real and complete national partnership, bolsters the state, and fortifies Lebanon against dangers.”

The major parliamentary blocs that make-up the cabinet have held a consultative meeting on the possibility of the March 14 opposition coalition’s resort to a vote of confidence on Ministers Jebran Bassil and Nicolas Sehnaoui, As Safir daily reported Friday.

The newspaper quoted informed sources as saying the blocs reached a conclusion that the opposition would not succeed in bringing down Premier Najib Miqati’s cabinet given that it is receiving Arab and international support.

The Lebanese and Libyan authorities are coordinating attempts to pursue personalities that were close to Libya’s ex-leader Moammar Gadhafi through the Interpol to unveil the fate of missing Imam Moussa al-Sadr, An Nahar daily reported Friday.

The newspaper said that the dead Libyan dictator's spymaster, Abdullah Senoussi, is at the top of the list of the wanted personalities for his knowledge in al-Sadr’s case.

A centrist ministerial source shrugged off warnings that state employees would not receive their salaries by the end of the month, saying the president should not be pressured into signing a decree on the $5.9 billion extra-budgetary spending of 2011.

Suleiman should be given the freedom whether to resort to article 58 of the constitution which allows the president to issue a bill deemed urgent by the government after the failure of the legislature to approve it within forty days following its transfer to the chamber of deputies and its inclusion on the agenda of the discussions.

Opposition MP Marwan Hamadeh accused the March 8 forces of seeking to circumvent the parliament by pressuring President Michel Suleiman into signing a bill on the $5.9 billion extra-budgetary spending of 2011.

In remarks to An Nahar daily published Friday, Hamadeh, who is part of the March 14 coalition, said: “Pressuring the president into signing an urgent bill for the first time since the (adoption of) the Taef (accord) circumvents the parliament which has been initially established to approve financial draft-laws.”

President Michel Suleiman is likely to throw the extra-budgetary spending ball in parliament’s court over fears that his approval of a $5.9 billion bill would have severe consequences.

Suleiman’s sources told As Safir daily published on Friday that the president’s legal experts are studying the amendments that the parliamentary finance and budget committee introduced to the bill referred to it by the cabinet.

Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi has blasted Premier Najib Miqati and Economy Minister Nicolas Nahhas for accusing him of seeking to take commissions in the deal to lease power-generating vessels.

Safadi challenged Miqati on Thursday, telling LBC’s Kalam al-Nass talk show that the prime minister should remove him from his post if any investigation proved that he had been seeking a commission.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Thursday that the rival domestic and regional camp “has an interest” in eliminating him from the political scene, noting that his “attempt to put the Christians at the heart of the Arab Spring is an additional factor in the assassination attempt” he escaped last week.

“I changed my lifestyle after the assassination attempt to prevent the perpetrators from making another bid,” Geagea said in an interview on Al-Arabiya.

A dispute in the Beirut suburb of Shiyah-Ghobeiri between the families of Fadel and al-Masri erupted into an armed clash on Thursday, leaving two people wounded, state-run National News Agency reported.

The two were stabbed with knives, the agency said.