Press Digest for Sunday February 23, 2014

The following are summaries of today's major stories published in the Arabic press. LBCI does not edit press digest articles for content, giving English-language readers insight into the various views expressed in newspapers across the Arab world.

• Saudi Arabia to invite Lebanese leaders to visit the kingdom-sources

Sources told An-Nahar newspaper on Sunday that Saudi Arabia is willing to invite Lebanese leaders to visit the kingdom to hold meetings and reach common ground over the remaining Lebanese pending issues.

Same sources added that such step comes following the meeting held between Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun with Future movement leader MP Saad Hariri.

The sources concluded by saying that a similar meeting may be held between Hariri and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea in the few coming days.

• Army-People-Resistance formula set to be tackled in National Dialogue table-sources

Sources told An-Nahar newspaper on Sunday that the Army-People-Resistance formula was set to be tackled during the National Dialogue table.

Sources added however that the leaders preferred to include the formula in the ministerial policy statement.

According to the Daily, participants in the panel drafting the ministerial policy used ministerial policies issued since 1990 in order to find a solution for the disputable formula.

• Rai-Hariri meeting in Rome to be followed up in Bkerke- sources

Sources told An-Nahar newspaper on Sunday that the meeting held between Patriarch Bechara Rai and MP Saad Hariri in Rome will be followed by another meeting in Bkerke.

Sources added that the meeting focused on three issues: Bkerke charter, the new cabinet, and the Syrian crisis and its repercussions on Lebanon.