U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams stressed on Tuesday the importance of the commitment to U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 by all the involved parties.

After meeting with Hizbullah official Ammar Moussawi, Williams said: “Because of the situation in the region and in the south, it is very important for all parties to commit to resolution 1701.”

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said on Tuesday that the situation in Lebanon is increasingly becoming linked with the developments in the region.

“The situation in Arab countries that is witnessing revolutions lately is very promising because the peoples are aspiring for freedom and democracy,” Geagea told a delegation from American University of Technology visiting him in Maarab.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi stated on Tuesday that the people are longing to “tear down the walls” that politics have erected between them.

He said before a consular delegation: “Lebanon is ill and need of treatment.”

A U.S. Army Brigadier General has asked for clarifications from the Lebanese army leadership on the incident in the border town of Maroun al-Ras on Nakba Day, a U.S. embassy statement said.

John W. Charlton, the Deputy Director for Middle East Political-Military Affairs in the Policy and Plans Directorate of the Joint Staff in the Pentagon, visited Lebanon on May 19-20 to hold discussions with the Lebanese army leadership on bilateral military programs, it said.

An anti-Assad regime movement in Lebanon is scheduled to hold a gathering on Tuesday afternoon in support of Syrian demonstrators.

“Lebanese for the Freedom and the Dignity of the Syrian People” movement called for the gathering to express unity with the people’s “revolution for the sake of dignity, freedom and democracy,” said a statement issued by organizers.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has unveiled that U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman sought during his visit to Beirut last week to coordinate with Lebanese officials attempts to issue a U.N. Security Council resolution against Syria.

Jumblat told Hizbullah’s al-Manar TV on Monday night that he disagreed with Feltman on his view and stressed to him that “any decision to isolate Syria would not do any good.”

The army intelligence has detained the secretary-general of the Arabic-Islamic Council after suspecting that he collaborated with the Israeli Mossad, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Mohammed Ali H., who is a clergyman, was moved to the ministry of defense in Yarze from his home in the southern port city of Tyre for interrogation, the daily said.

Premier-designate Najib Miqati has stressed that he would not form a government of “cantons” or grant portfolios to political parties in order to turn them into “feudal” entities.

“I told everyone without exception and not only the general (Michel Aoun) as is being rumored, to give me lists of portfolios that they are seeking and lists of names that they suggest so that I would distribute the portfolios on the names in accordance with my authorities and the authorities of the president,” Miqati was quoted as saying by al-Akhbar daily on Tuesday.

Hizbullah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem has said on the occasion of the Liberation Day that the resistance proved its ability to impose changes in the region.

“The Liberation caused a strategic leap that indicates the beginning of the fall of Israel … With liberation the time of victories began,” Qassem told As Safir newspaper on Tuesday.

The circles of Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat have stressed that the Druze leader has repeatedly called for an end to the government “joke.”

In remarks to As Safir daily on Tuesday, the circles said: “It seems that no one has heard” Jumblat’s cry.