Hizbullah party has welcomed President Michel Aoun's speech at the Arab summit in Jordan, describing it as message urging the Arab leaders to mind their major causes and to stop interfering in other states, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

“The President appeared at the summit more keen on Arab solidarity, urging the Arabs to attend to basic issues and preventing interference in each others affairs and to put an end to the wars,” Hizbullah Youth and Sports Minister Mohammed Fneish told the daily.

Aoun's speech at the 28th Arab summit in Jordan echoed well among Arab circles and was assessed as “positive,” al-Akhbar daily reported on Thursday.

Arab diplomatic sources told the daily the speech did not go unnoticed, it “left a positive influence on heads of the delegations who considered that Lebanon should play a leading role,” said the sources on condition of anonymity.

President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday he will carry a peace message to the Arab summit on behalf of the Lebanese and will stress the significance of Arab solidarity and activation of Arab League charter.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil said on Tuesday that the cabinet has approved the 2017 draft budget plan during Monday's meeting where “new elements to promote tax justice and abolish protected monopolies were introduced.”

Speaking after an extraordinary meeting of the Change and Reform bloc, the Minister pointed out: “We underlined three old demands of the bloc namely the tax on real estate profits, raising taxes on bank profits and bank interests.”

An electricity plan proposed by Lebanon's Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil was approved by the government on Tuesday where its articles will be studied and approved individually by the cabinet.

In a session devoted to study the electricity-reform plan, the cabinet convened at the Presidential Palace in Baabda and was chaired by President Michel Aoun in the presence of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and the ministers.

A new difficulty has surfaced on the eve of the Arab summit after reports said that five former presidents and premiers of Lebanon have sent a letter to head of the Arab summit including negative positions of Hizbullah -which was interpreted as bypassing Lebanon's position, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Lebanon's participation in the summit is keen on highlighting the image and consistent position of the country during the new term of President Michel Aoun with PM Saad Hariri's participation. But what drew the attention was a message sent to the summit by five former presidents and prime ministers which perturbs Lebanon's stance during the summit, said the daily.

Syrian opposition factions destroyed a Hizbullah military position and killed a number of its commanders and fighters in the town of Qamhana in central Syria's Hama district on Sunday, Sky News Arabia reported Monday.

According to field sources, the opposition fighters targeted the position with guided missiles, which led to the destruction and the killing of all Hizbullah fighters inside, asserting that among them were field commanders, according to Sky News.

Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat voiced calls on Monday to save Lebanon's notoriously ineffective and costly electricity sector from plagued “corruption” and described the persisting power crisis as the result of failed political polices a “crime.”

The cabinet will convene on Monday to address Lebanon's 2017 draft budget plan, amid reports that it will also dwell on the electricity file following a new project presented by Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil, the pan-Arab al-Hayat daily reported.

The project under the title “Power Saving Plan” does not take into consideration an earlier request of the Lebanese Forces party to privatize the sector, “but bears a resemblance to a former plan put by Abi Khalil's predecessor (Jebran Bassil) that decided to hire two Turkish power generating vessels under the pretext of overcoming part of the shortage,” said the daily.

President Michel Aoun will head a delegation to Jordan on Tuesday to partake in the 28th Arab League summit which will be held in Amman, and to hold talks with several Arab leaders, media reports said on Monday.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri will accompany Aoun and so will Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil and Minister of Economy and Trade Raed Khoury.