Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Wednesday that the cabinet crisis which erupted earlier in the month hasn’t been resolved yet.

“The cabinet’s (work) is ongoing and there is no problem in the government,” Miqati said after holding talks with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders praised on Wednesday the Lebanese government for funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, and hailed the Belgian-Lebanese bilateral relations.

“We are eager to continue our cooperation with the United Nations Security Council for the upcoming three years,” Reynders said after meeting with Prime Minister Najib Miqati at the Grand Serail.

State Minister Marwan Kheireddine stressed on Wednesday that the cabinet shouldn’t paralyze the country because of disputes among its members or over a signature, criticizing Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas’ firm stance on the transportation allowance decree.

“Prime Minister (Najib Miqati) was clear that (Nahhas) should sign the decree,” Kheireddine told reporters after holding a meeting with Miqati at the Grand Serail.

An increase in the public transportation tariffs created controversy in Lebanon on Wednesday, as the Public Works and Transport Ministry confirmed there was no official decision to boost the prices.

Some drivers of “service taxis” and vans decided to boost the transportation fees by LL500 or LL1,000, causing a tumult.

The cabinet remained deadlock on Wednesday as Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Labor Minister Charbel Nahhas seem to hold onto their stances over controversial issues.

“The issue is at a standstill as the premier’s stances are clear and he won’t back down, rumors on his resignation are untrue,” Miqati’s sources told An Nahar newspaper.

The major reaction to the March 14 forces’ call on Hizbullah to hand over its arms to the Lebanese army will likely come through the party’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, during a televised speech on Thursday.

During a gathering organized on Tuesday by the March 14 coalition in BIEL on ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 assassination anniversary, the main speakers slammed Hizbullah and its arms.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi postponed his visit to the northern port city of Tripoli over last week’s bloody clashes between two rival neighborhoods.

The Tripoli bishopric said Tuesday that the postponement of the visit that was scheduled to take place on Saturday and Sunday came to allow “the city to lick its wounds after the latest confrontations that it witnessed.”

The U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon will issue a new indictment in the case of the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri by the end of this month, Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Tuesday.

"Daniel Bellemare, the chief prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, informed me on his recent visit to Beirut that he would submit a new revised indictment before leaving office end of February," Miqati told Agence France Presse.

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday hit back at Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea and Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel, who both earlier in the day called on the government to step down.

“As long as they have called on the government (to step down), its term will be extended,” Aoun said, in response to a question from a reporter after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc in Rabiyeh.

Former Prime Minsiter Saad Hairi stressed on Tuesday that the Syrian revolution will triumph.

He declared: “I will bear the responsibility of my solidarity with the Syrian people.”