
FILE - Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations Nawaf Salam speaks to reporters after Security Council consultations on the situation in Libya, March 14, 2011 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo, File)

Antoine Shoukeir, the presidency's director general, announces that Nawaf Salam, a prominent diplomat and jurist is now prime minister-designate at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, second left, waves to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Raad, center, speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

The head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Raad, center, speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)