Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has warned that he and a large parliamentary bloc will strongly oppose a framework accord recently signed between Lebanon and Israel.

"They have entangled themselves in a major ordeal. If they believe this agreement will pass through constitutional institutions, they do not realize they will be facing Nabih Berri and a large parliamentary bloc. In the past, they faced Najah Wakim and Zaher al-Khatib, but today they will face me alongside a very large number of MPs," Berri was quoted as saying by visitors, in a report published Tuesday in the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper.