BEIRUT: Prime Minister Tammam Salam expressed readiness Monday to discuss the Cabinet's decision-making formula at next week's session to avert paralysis, calling on lawmakers to keep cool.

"I will not facilitate the obstruction of the Cabinet... and we are all required to calm dawn," Salam said after meeting with a delegation from the Committee in Defense of Beirut Rights, chaired by Lawyer Saeb Matraji.

The premier, who was at loggerheads with Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil during last week's Cabinet session, said that the government "is tasked with running the affairs of the country and people and not entering in political rows."

"We are a coalition government and the Cabinet is not the right place to resolve political disputes."

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