On Wednesday, the Lebanese Cabinet faces another challenge. On its eve, Syrian, Saudi and Syrian held a meaningful and fruitful meeting.

On Wednesday, the Lebanese cabinet would face another challenge…

On Wednesday, the Lebanese cabinet is expected to hold another “tense” session, with the false witnesses issue at the top of the agenda.

On the eve of the session, all stances seem to remain the same…

The opposition, represented by Hezbollah, AMAL movement and the Free Patriotic Movement, is insisting on the transfer of the file to the Judicial Council in order to pave the way for a serious investigation with those witnesses whose false testimonies led to the unfair detention of innocent people for four years. In contrast, Prime Minister Saad Hariri is refusing the opposition’s demands, claiming that he’s not ready to offer any “compromise”. 

While the opposition says ready to resort to the vote mechanism since consensus seems to be impossible, the Prime Minister’s sources are hinting the latter would withdraw, alongside his ministers, from the session in such case.

Meanwhile, opposition ministers are set to convene on Tuesday in order to coordinate their position over the file. The meeting will also be attended by the political advisors of Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hajj Hussein Khalil, and House Speaker Nabih Berri, MP Ali Hasan Khalil.

Marada Movement minister Youssef Saadeh revealed that certain suggestions have been devised to end the crisis. He told Lebanese daily As-Safir Tuesday that it is no longer acceptable that the false witnesses file keep on being postponed from one session to another, especially since the subject has been exhausted by the political forces.

In the meantime, President Michel Sleiman, supported by the head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblatt, is doing his best to “formulate” an “exit scenario” with no winner and no loser, as the Lebanese formula states.

The President’s initiative comes in harmony with the “calm atmosphere” implanted in the region thanks to the Arab-Arab rapprochement, a rapprochement that was reflected in Lebanon through a meeting that joined Syrian, Saudi and Iranian ambassadors at the residence of the Syrian ambassador in Hazmieh.

The meeting, grouping Syrian ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali and his Saudi and Iranian counterparts Ali Awad Asiri and Ghazanfar-Rokn Abadi, was designed to discuss an Arab-Iranian umbrella to get the Lebanese to overcome the International Tribunal indictment.

Asiri, the Saudi ambassador, told Al-Liwaa in remarks published Tuesday that acceptance of this invitation reflects the keenness of Damascus, Riyadh and Tehran to preserve Lebanon\'s stability. "We will stress during the meeting on the need for the Lebanese to adhere to unity and the need to strengthen the internal front to face any dramatic developments," Asiri said prior to the meeting.

Earlier, Lebanese and Syrian sources told As-Safir that the meeting between Saudi King Abdullah\'s son and advisor, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, and Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus has yielded "positive results."

The daily quoted Arab diplomatic sources in Damascus as saying that Abdul Aziz conveyed a message from King Abdullah to Assad. The sources said the visit reflected the desire to develop a way out of the crisis. They said the two men exchanged ideas about the possible exits to the crisis over the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.