The Parliament Bureau on Monday postponed taking a decision regarding a controversial legislative session that Speaker Nabih Berri had intended to call for, as the Free Patriotic Movement declared its boycott of any such session.

"The discussions will be continued next Monday," Parliament Secretary-General Adnan Daher said after a meeting for the Parliament Bureau on Monday.

Envoys from five countries that took part in the latest Paris meeting on Lebanon – U.S., France, Egypt, Qatar and KSA – met Monday in Beirut with Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker PM Najib Mikati.

Hezbollah has sent a convoy of 23 trucks carrying food and medical aid to Syria's quake-stricken province of Latakia, a stronghold of the group's allies.

"This the moment of support, the moment of assistance," senior Hezbollah official Sayyed Hashem Safieddine told reporters in Beirut.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday commented on the reports that the Maronite patriarchate intends to launch a presidential initiative.

The Lebanese Forces snapped back Saturday at the Free Patriotic Movement in a growing war of words over an expected legislative session.

An armed clash broke out Friday afternoon near the Child And Mother Welfare Hospital and the al-Qassar Mosque in Beirut’s Aisha Bakkar, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea on Friday blasted the Free Patriotic Movement over its reported decision to attend a legislative session that Speaker Nabih Berri intends to call for.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi will not invite Christian MPs to a meeting in Bkikri before confirming the “outcome and effectiveness” of such a move, sources informed on al-Rahi’s efforts said.

“He is inclined to first discuss the issue with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, to determine whether he and Hezbollah would positively receive any inter-Christian agreement,” the sources added, in remarks to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper published Friday.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Friday defended himself anew in the face of a host of accusations.

“The lawsuits targeted against me are unfounded and I have submitted audited official documents,” Salameh said in an interview with Asharq TV.

The Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon together with the diplomatic missions of the EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland have announced that they are “gravely concerned” about the current situation in Lebanon.