President Michel Suleiman and Speaker Nabih Berri agreed to adopt a draft law that combines the proportional representation and winner-takes-all systems as a settlement to the sharp differences among Lebanese political foes over the matter, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Sources close to the two officials told the newspaper that they voiced their support to a draft law proposed by the Burtos Committee in 2005 which was headed by former Foreign Minister Fouad Butros.

Interior Minister Marwan Charbel hailed on Wednesday the performance of President Michel Suleiman, without confirming or denying if he will run for presidency after the tenure of Suleiman ends in 2014.

“We have a president called Michel Suleiman and he will remain in his post until the last moment, I really admire his performance,” Charbel said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed that the cabinet's approach on the administrative reforms is necessary to carry out the administrative appointments.

“The administrative reforms have been implemented for the first time (in Lebanon) since 1959,” Miqati said in comments published in al-Liwaa newspaper.

President Michel Suleiman has stressed that Lebanon will not be a “mailbox” anymore or “a place to protect any regime or state.”

“Lebanon paid dearly for its freedom and democracy and from now on it will not allow anyone to turn it into a launchpad for sending messages to anyone or into a place to protect any regime or state other than Lebanon's,” Suleiman reassured during a meeting with the Lebanese community in Uruguay.

Cabinet is scheduled to convene on Monday and Wednesday in order to address a number of draft laws, but not the contentious appointments file, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

Monday's session, headed by Prime Minister Najib Miqati and held at the Grand Serail, will study efforts to activate administrative work.

President Michel Suleiman stated that it is time that the Lebanese people enjoy “the least amount of calm and stability” given the turbulent regional situation, reported As Safir newspaper on Saturday.

He told the daily: “My call to resume the national dialogue is aimed at achieving sovereignty, stability, and security.”

President Michel Suleiman on Thursday noted that Syria was not seeking to stir chaos in Lebanon, stressing that the weapons of non-state actors will be eventually removed, “whether they belong to Hizbullah or the Salafist forces.”

“Syria does not have the objective of stirring chaos in Lebanon as it is barely being able to tackle its own problems at the moment, and we have to prevent a spillover of the Syrian crisis into Lebanon through endorsing the stance of neutrality that was taken by the national dialogue commission,” Suleiman said during a meeting with Argentinean reporters in Buenos Aires.

The authority charged with following up on the case of the death of Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Wahed and his companion Sheikh Mohammed Merheb demanded on Wednesday that the case be reopened following recent revelations that the Syrian regime was involved in the crime, reported the National News Agency.

The authority demanded from President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Miqati to reopen the case and refer it to the judicial council.

President Michel Suleiman on Monday called for respecting “the right of peoples to self-determination,” describing as a “mistaken belief” the notion that the current conflicts in the Arab countries were caused by the diversity of some Arab societies.

Addressing the Summit of South American and Arab Countries, or ASPA, which started on Monday in Peru, Suleiman said “a balanced liberalism, a policy of openness, a real democracy, and respecting the rights of others, stability and peace are the effective path for finding the needed solutions to the aforementioned difficulties.”

The controversial appointment of head of the Higher Judicial Council is expected to witness a breakthrough as Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun agreed to withdraw his candidate running for the post, Judge Tannous Mishleb.

Sources close to the FPM told al-Liwaa newspaper published on Monday that Aoun backed down on his candidate in return for having the Maronite seat in the oil authority, which is tasked with administrating the oil sector, that President Michel Suleiman was keen not to suggest any candidate of his own for the post.