Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday described the Iranian-Saudi reconciliation agreement as a “major event,” hoping it will lead to a “settlement” in Lebanon and the “election of a president before June.”

Embattled Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh will attend Wednesday’s interrogation session at the Justice Palace but will not be detained, a senior judicial source said.

Monaco is continuing its investigation into suspected money laundering by caretaker Prime minister Najib Mikati, a newspaper published in Abu Dhabi reported.

The National said Tuesday it has learned from Monaco's public prosecutor that the investigation, currently ongoing in Monaco, has been entrusted to the judicial police division of the Public Security.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf will visit Lebanon in the last week of March as part of a tour of a number of countries in the region, a Lebanese official source said.

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday held talks in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Tuesday tweeted that the date of March 14, 1989 marked “the beginning for regaining freedom, sovereignty and independence,” in reference to the day on which General Michel Aoun declared a “war of liberation” against Syrian forces stationed in Lebanon.

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has hailed the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, as he discussed the presidential file with Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari, Nidaa al-Watan newspaper said Tuesday.

The daily learned from high-level sources that the meeting between Jumblat and Bukhari was positive and that Jumblat has reiterated his objection to the election of a one-sided president.

The Association of Banks in Lebanon is inclined to suspend its strike at the end of this week and operations will resume on Monday, al-Jadeed TV reported on Tuesday.

Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari has reiterated the qualifications that KSA thinks a president should have during his meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, media reports said.

Sources told al-Joumhouria, in remarks published Tuesday, that Bukhari has reasserted that the presidential election is a Lebanese affair.

A Lebanese judge has asked central bank chief Riad Salameh to appear before visiting European investigators, a judicial official said, part of a multinational probe into his personal wealth.

Salameh "has been summoned to appear at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) on Wednesday" before investigators from France, Luxembourg and Belgium, the Lebanese judicial official told AFP on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.