Speaker Nabih Berri has increased his insistence on the representation of March 8’s Sunnis in the new government after receiving a “sharp-toned message from Damascus in the past few days,” a media report said.

The message “admonished him for not standing by Syria’s close allies,” Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper quoted informed sources as saying in remarks published Sunday.

“He has raised the level of his support for Syria’s attendance of Beirut’s Arab economic summit and he has also met with MP Abdul Rahim Mrad and other figures who are loyal to the Syrian regime after a long period of lack of communication with them,” the sources added.