Fouad Saniora announces that he will step down as Prime Minister after the Parliamentary elections in June 2009.

Michel Khoury, the first Lebanese Ambassador to Syria starts his job in Damascus making it a historic moment as Syria never recognized Lebanon as a sovereign country.

Commenting on Jumblat's statement that the Christians are Isolationists and the Sunnis could not do anything, Aoun is quoted saying that "I do not expect more from him".