President Michel Suleiman traveled on Monday to the Gulf Monarch Kuwait at the head of a delegation to attend the Arab League Summit as the situation in Lebanon is expected to top its agenda.

The delegation is comprised of Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, Health Minister Wael Abou Faour along with a number of advisers and security and administrative delegations.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil announced on Sunday that a meeting of Arab foreign ministers held in Kuwait approved a plan he had presented aimed at bolstering the Lebanese army.

He said via Twitter: “The foreign ministers agreed to support the army in its resistance of Israel and battle against terrorism.”

An Arab League summit opens in Kuwait on Tuesday at a time of deepening rifts between its member states and without any end in sight to the Syrian conflict.

With Doha in the eye of the storm, the region's leaders are expected to discuss the row which has pitted Qatar against Gulf partners Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as well as Egypt.

Western countries voiced fear that Syrian refugees in Lebanon would be driven to Jihad if the Lebanese state didn't provide them with their needs and improve their living conditions.

A prominent western diplomat said in comments published in As Safir newspaper on Tuesday that the international aid for Lebanon aims at helping Lebanon to deal with the large influx of Syrian refugees.

Syria has decided to close its embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia because they have refused to accept the accreditations of its envoys, diplomats posted in Damascus said on Wednesday.

"Syria's embassies in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are to close because these countries have been refusing to accredit the diplomats sent by Damascus since the start of the crisis," one of the sources said.

Kuwait plans to raise its oil production capacity by 150,000 barrels per day to 3.4 million bpd by mid-2015, a top oil executive in the oil-rich Gulf state said Tuesday.

"(Kuwait's) current production capacity is 3.25 million bpd. We plan to add another 150,000 bpd by mid-2015," said Hashim Hashim, the chief executive officer of Kuwait Oil Company, which is responsible for exploration and production.

The emir of oil-rich Kuwait has undergone a "successful minor surgery" in the United States following medical tests, the royal court said Sunday.

Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, who turns 85 in June, "will leave hospital after the usual convalescence period," the royal court said in a brief statement carried by KUNA state news agency.

Emir of OPEC member Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, left for New York on Monday to undergo "routine" medical tests, the official KUNA news agency reported.

The agency provided no details on the nature of the tests nor the duration of the stay of the emir, who turns 85 in June.

The Arab Summit that will be held in Kuwait on March 25 and 26 is expected to tackle the latest developments in Lebanon and will be preceded by a meeting for the International Support Group for Lebanon that is set to be held in Paris in early March.

A diplomatic source said in comments published in As Safir newspaper that the Arab Summit will address the situation in Lebanon and stress its keenness to safeguard the country's stability, security and reiterate its support to the state's dissociation policy.

A Kuwaiti MP filed a bill Thursday to create a government-funded trust fund for every citizen from birth that would become an 18th birthday present of around $40,000 (29,200 euros).

Under MP Askar al-Enezi's proposal, the government of the oil-rich Gulf state would deposit 50 dinars ($177) each month into an account for each citizen from the time of birth.