Lebanon's Berri urges postponement of Arab Economic Summit, MPs say

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called on Wednesday for an Arab Economic Summit due to take place this month in Beirut to be postponed because Lebanon had failed to agree a new government.

Berri asserted "again the necessity of having Syria participate in such a summit", lawmakers from his parliamentary bloc quoted him as saying after a meeting.

(Reporting by Ellen Francis; Editing by Kevin Liffey)