Speaker Nabih Berri reached an understanding with Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil to resolve two controversial files that had been a point of contention between him and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, a report said Wednesday.

Berri and Bassil, who is Aoun's son-in-law and a top FPM official, held talks on Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh for more than 90 minutes.

The Lebanese authorities will kick off a campaign to remove all political and party posters, banners and flags that are erected in various areas across Lebanon, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.

The decision comes in light of the fourth dialogue session between al-Mustaqbal Movement and Hizbullah after the two parties agreed to further defuse the sectarian tension in the country and fortify the security situation.

Speaker Nabih Berri has discussed with al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri the talks between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal representatives, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

The daily said that Berri's short meeting with Hariri was held in Riyadh over the weekend when the speaker extended his condolences on the death of Saudi King Abdullah.

MP Atef Majdalani and Health Minister Wael Abou Faour hailed on Thursday the approval of the joint parliamentary committees of a draft-law on food safety, hoping for its swift approval by the legislature.

“The draft-law has become a reality and we would soon have a modern law that protects food,” said Majdalani during a joint press conference with Abou Faour following the approval of the draft-law.

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Wednesday of the dangerouseness of Israel's strike on Syria's Quneitra region, saying that it committed a “strategic error.”

He said: “Through this crime, Israel placed Iran on its border.”

Speaker Nabih Berri warned on Tuesday offenders in the Bekaa valley that they will eventually have no choice but to hand themselves over to security forces, flee the country or face death ahead of the implementation of a security plan in the area.

The speaker stressed that the implementation of the security plan this time will not be like its predecessors, stressing that the security forces will remain deployed in the area until all violators are apprehended.

Speaker Nabih Berri has accused Israel of seeking to hit Lebanon every time the country makes progress towards stability as a report said that he held contacts with top officials to contain the repercussions of an Israeli strike that killed several Hizbullah members.

“Every time we take steps forward in terms of achieving stability … Israel tries to create chaos,” local dailies on Monday quoted Berri as telling his visitors.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said that the closure of the notorious block B of Roumieh prison east of Beirut was the result of the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal that started last month.

“The operation at Roumieh prison came as a repercussion to the dialogue ... which proved that the state exists,” Berri told his visitors.

Speaker Nabih Berri has stressed that the dialogue between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal movement achieved major results, such as the consolidation of national security, and said it will continue to make serious progress.

The talks between the two parties' representatives “is not a folklore and not (only aimed at) limiting Sunni-Shiite tension,” Berri told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published on Tuesday.

Speaker Nabih Berri praised the residents of Jabal Mohsen in the northern city of Tripoli after the suicide attack that targeted a packed cafe on Saturday and stressed that talks between Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal began showing their fruits.

Local dailies published on Monday quoted Berri as telling his visitors that “we won nine martyrs and the terrorists lost two” men.