Lebanon will file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council over the recent spying stations installed by Israel along its border with Lebanon.

According to al-Joumhouria newspaper published on Friday, the complaint will be filed in light of the report issued by the parliamentary telecommunications committee, which will meet on Monday.

The United Nations Security Council has "strongly condemned" the kidnapping and slaying of two French radio journalists in Mali's troubled northeast.

The journalists -- Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon of Radio France International (RFI) -- were found dead after being kidnapped by armed men in the northern city of Kidal.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday that the country would have had more influence by taking a seat on the U.N. Security Council.

A senior State Department official said Kerry discussed the issue of Saudi Arabia's shock rejection of a U.N. Security Council seat with Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal during talks in Paris.

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi Sunday backed Saudi Arabia's rejection of a seat on the U.N. Security Council, saying the diplomatic body had failed in its responsibility towards the Arab world.

Arabi told reporters that Saudi Arabia was right to object to the Security Council's management methods and the fact that it failed in its responsibility to secure international peace, "which it is not doing at all."

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.

The major powers overcame a prolonged deadlock to approve the first council resolution on the conflict, which is now 30 months old with more than 100,000 dead.

Syrian President Bashar Assad accused foreign nations of giving orders to "terrorists" battling his government's forces in an interview with China's state CCTV broadcast Monday.

He spoke as U.N. Security Council members negotiate a resolution on how to respond if Syria fails to fulfill an international deal to eliminate its chemical weapons arsenal.

U.N. leader Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday he will press the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China to take joint action on the Syria crisis at a meeting next week.

He made the announcement as U.N. envoys from the five permanent Security Council members met to discuss a French-drafted resolution on destroying Syria's chemical weapons.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon will on Monday present a report on Syria's chemical weapons, increasing pressure on the Assad regime, as support grows for a U.S.-Russian initiative to avert war.

Ban will unveil the findings of a U.N. investigation team to the U.N. Security Council in New York at 11:15am (1515 GMT). He has already revealed that he expects the report to provide "overwhelming" confirmation that chemical arms were used in an attack near Damascus on August 21 in which hundreds died.

Syrian regime forces executed at least 248 people in the villages of Bayda and Banias earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said Friday, calling for Damascus to be held accountable.

In a report, the New York-based rights group said it had compiled a list of the names of 248 people killed in the two villages in coastal Tartus province on May 2 and 3.

France said Wednesday it would remain poised to launch military action against Syria over its use of chemical weapons despite ongoing attempts to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

The warning came after a meeting between President Francois Hollande, his foreign and defense ministers and senior military figures.