Prime Minister Saad Hariri is expected on Monday to call the ministers for a meeting this week to tackle the “government statement” following a political crisis that paralyzed the country after his shock resignation on November 4, al-Joumhouria daily reported.

France will host the International Lebanon Support Group at the Quai d'Orsay on Friday at the level of foreign ministers to discuss the political crisis that emerged in in the country, An Nahar daily reported on Monday.

Lebanon's delegation will be led by Prime Minister Saad Hariri and French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian will lead the French side, it added.

Speaker Nabih Berri is insisting on “reassuring Saudi Arabia” in the statement that will be issued by the government next week as part of the new settlement between the political forces, a media report said.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri and Free Patriotic Movement chief and Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil have met in Paris to put the “final touches” on a new political settlement that will be announced next week, a media report published Sunday said.

MP Qassem Hashem of Speaker Nabih Berri’s Development and Liberation bloc announced Sunday that the Cabinet “will remain as it is,” denying reports of an imminent Cabinet reshuffle.

France is pressing the Lebanese parties to reach a solution to the political crisis before December 8, the date of the International Support Group for Lebanon’s meeting that Paris has called for, a media report published Sunday said.

Washington has promised President Michel Aoun to offer Lebanon annual aid worth $1 billion, of which $500 million would go to the Lebanese Army and the rest would be earmarked for government plans, a media report published Sunday said.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea defended on Saturday Lebanon's banking system stressing that it can't be passing funds for the US-sanctioned party Hizbullah.

A fake explosive belt was found on Saturday inside a garbage sorting plant in the northern city of Tripoli, media reports said.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that Lebanon had been “hijacked” by Hizbullah and could only prosper if the party disarmed.