Following are summaries of some of the main stories in a selection of Lebanese newspapers Monday. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.

As-Safir: Kheireddine [to be named Cabinet] minister …. And Ibrahim chief of General Security

The new week is expected to start off at the same pace as last week with the approval of the first batch of public appointments, including that of Brig. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim as chief of the General Security at a Cabinet meeting to be held Monday afternoon. The meeting is to be preceded by a decree appointing Marwan Kheireddine as minister of state to replace MP Talal Arslan. [Arslan resigned from Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s government shortly after its announcement on June 13 in protest at being overlooked for the post of defense minister which he had requested.]

In light of the preconditions set by the March 14 coalition, the internal climate seemed unready yet for dialogue despite calls by President Michel Sleiman during a dinner held in honor of Patriarch Beshara Rai. Sleiman said he would launch "a series of consultations in preparation to develop a framework for appropriate dialogue to protect Lebanon and strengthen it from internal and external reprecussions, without stopping efforts toward agreement on the primary issue: a national strategy to safeguard the nation.”

Meanwhile, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he supported Sleiman’s position made during the Amchit dinner.

Berri announced readiness to respond to a call for dialogue.

“I am ready to participate again in dialogue, even if it was held on the road as it would at least serve the purpose of calming the souls and achieving communication [among the rival Lebanese],” Berri told As-Safir.

On the other hand, and in response to Sleiman’s call for all-party talks, a prominent source in the Future Movement told As-Safir that the past experience with dialogue was “bad” as none of the items agreed upon - the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, demarcating the border with Syria, and collecting weapons off Palestinian factions outside refugee camps - had been implemented, “which makes us wonder what the benefits are of repeating the past experience as long as chances of success are slim.”

Al-Mustaqbal: Indictments [in Hariri assassination] to be made public after 30-day deadline expires

Al-Mustaqbal has learned that following the appointment of Abbas Ibrahim as chief of General Security, "reforms" in the General Security Directorate General are expected to be launched, including a proposal to create a new post - deputy chief of General Security or the formation of a General Security Council similar to that of the Lebanese Army and Internal Security Forces.

In parallel, there were talks about calls to give the position of head of Airport Security to a Christian in return for keeping the post of the General Security chief for the Shiite sect.

Well-informed sources told Al-Mustaqbal that acting Chief of General Security Brig. Gen. Raymond Khattar is likely to be appointed the Director General of Civil Defense, to replace Brig. Gen. Darwish Hobeika, who has reached the retirement age. If this appointment does not take place during Monday’s session, then it will occur at a later meeting.

Ministerial sources also said that the appointment of governors is being discussed and that among the proposed names is Ali Hamad, a Parliament civil servant, as Mount Lebanon governor.

Meanwhile, head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s Defense Office Francois Roux said the indictments in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri "will be made public after the 30-day deadline to arrest the suspects expires.”

"You cannot accuse the court of politicization since it has not started work yet," Roux told Al-Jadid television station.

Al-Akhbar: Kheireddine in Cabinet and Ibrahim in General Security  

Cabinet’s Monday meeting should be a new start for the new government to begin serious discussions on economic and social issues as the week opens with the appointment of Brig. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, currently deputy chief of Lebanon's Army Intelligence, as head of the General Security to be followed by the appointment of Marwan Kheireddine as state minister to replace resigned minister Talal Arslan after overcoming the dispute between Arslan and Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and after resolving the problem with Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt after he saw that political parties had overstepped his authority in agreeing on Kheireddinde.

A meeting between Jumblatt and Arslan in Mukhtara last Saturday was held to overcome the obstacle with Jumblatt despite insistence by sources in Arslan’s Democratic Party that the meeting aimed at “strengthening the strategic alliance between the two parties.”

An-Nahar: Kheireddine minister and an extraordinary session

Ibrahim to General Security and Khattar to Civil Defense

Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s 30-member Cabinet will be completed Monday with a presidential decree announcing the appointment Marwan Kheireddine as minister of state to replace resigned minister Talal Arslan.

An-Nahar has also learned that another decree will be issued Monday announcing the opening of an extraordinary session of Parliament.