BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement (F.P.M.) leader M.P. Michel Aoun said Tuesday Hizbullah and Speaker Nabih Berri’s Amal Movement have been informed of the failure of Syrian-Saudi efforts to break the deadlock over the U.N.-backed tribunal investigating former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination.

Aoun said a delegation of the March 8 coalition was currently discussing with President Michel Sleiman an alternative solution to the Saudi-Syrian initiative, prior to a meeting of ministers loyal to Hizbullah and its allies to be held in Rabiyeh at 7:30 p.m.

He added that the delegation comprising Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s top political aide, Hussein Khalil, F.P.M. official and Energy Minister Jibran Bassil and a representative of Marada Movement leader Suleiman Franjieh would inform the gathering of the outcome of talks with Sleiman.