BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri called on Parliament Friday to meet next week to debate Cabinet’s policy statement ahead of a vote of confidence, the state-run National News Agency reported.

It said Berri set three days for the parliamentary debate of Cabinet’s policy statement from July 5 to 7, including evening sessions with the apparent aim of hastening a vote of confidence.

Berri’s decision came a day after Cabinet approved its policy statement during a meeting chaired by President Michel Sleiman. The approval put an end to a dispute Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Hezbollah over a U.N.-backed court probing the 2005 killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The approval of the policy statement came on the day the Special Tribunal for Lebanon issued its indictment and arrest warrants against four Hezbollah members in Hariri’s assassination.

In its policy statement, the government stresses Lebanon’s respect of U.N. resolutions and pledges to follow the tribunal’s path in order to reach the truth in Hariri’s assassination.

MPs from former Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s parliamentary Future bloc and the March 14 parties are expected to criticize the government’s policy statement for being weak on the STL and they will not vote for the Cabinet.

However, Mikati’s government, supported by 68 MPs, is assured of winning a vote of confidence from the 128-member legislature.

Mikati formed a 30-member Cabinet on June 13 in which Hezbollah and its March 8 allies have a majority, ending a political deadlock that left the country in a power vacuum for five months.