U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus has lauded Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s latest remarks on Hezbollah’s arms, a media report said on Wednesday.

The third annual Ambassador For A Day competition celebrates the potential of Lebanon's youth as it gives young girls the opportunity to shadow heads of diplomatic missions for one day.

On Tuesday, the British, Canadian and Jordanian embassies jointly hosted a reception to celebrate the thirty winners, from across various regions and backgrounds in Lebanon, of this year’s “Ambassador For A Day” competition. Each winner will spend one day shadowing an Ambassador, Senior U.N. or Lebanese official. This promises to be an unforgettable opportunity to build confidence, leadership, and diplomatic skills.

Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji has said that Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem “can say what he wants” about the so-called “army-people-resistance” equation but added that “the Lebanese people no longer want this outdated equation.”

An Israeli drone tried to target a car in the southern town of al-Abbasiyeh but the missile failed to explode, media reports said, as the Health Ministry said one person was wounded in the botched strike.

A clash erupted Wednesday between an armored UNIFIL patrol and residents of the southern town of Yater, in the Bint Jbeil district, after the patrol entered one of the town’s neighborhoods, the state-run National News Agency reported.

An Emirati official said Wednesday that “UAE’s president is keen on granting Lebanon everything it wishes for,” during a visit by a UAE delegation to the Port of Beirut.

“The Lebanese citizen wants Lebanon to return to its strategic role and the president of the UAE is keen on granting Lebanon everything it wishes for,” the head of the delegation, Assistant Minister of Cabinet Affairs for Competitiveness and Knowledge Exchange Abdullah Nasser Lootah, said.

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike on south Lebanon killed one man on Tuesday evening, the latest attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has only heard about U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus' visit to Lebanon from media reports.

Berri told local al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Tuesday, that he hasn't been formally informed that Ortagus would visit Lebanon next week and that he has not seen any tangible steps from the U.S. regarding the Israeli violations of the November ceasefire.

President Joseph Aoun held a friendly meeting with a delegation from Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc on Monday, after which sources from or close to the bloc lauded Aoun as “very affable,” a media report said.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday that Lebanon, exhausted by divisions and wars, has decided to retrieve the state and its monopoly on arms and to return to the Arab fold.

In a speech at the Arab Media Summit in Dubai, Salam said that Lebanon's project - which "is not a fantasy, but a realistic project" - is based on reforms and sovereignty, explaining that the latter means freeing Lebanon from the duality of arms "which led to dual decision-making and to the loss of a national state."