President Michel Aoun stressed on Wednesday that Saad Hariri will stay the Prime Minister of Lebanon as he stressed that the political crisis that followed his resignation will be over within days.

As the cabinet gears up for an expected meeting next week, Speaker Nabih Berri said it is unlikely for a “governmental reshuffle or formation of a new government” to take place mainly after the reigning confusion that gripped the country and ended with PM Saad Hariri delaying his plans to resign.

President Michel Aoun left Beirut on Tuesday for a three-day official visit to Rome at the invitation of his Italian counterpart Sergio Matarella, who will hold talks at the Italian presidential palace on the Lebanese-Italian relations and means of developing them in all fields, the National News Agency reported.

Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced Tuesday that he expects a “breakthrough” in the country's political crisis next week, as he warned that Lebanon would face a “problem” if it does not implement a “real dissociation policy.”

“We will continue the ongoing dialogue in the coming days with all due positivity and openness. It is a serious dialogue aimed at finding serious solutions to preserve our ties with all our Arab friends, especially the Gulf,” said Hariri during a meeting with a joint delegation from Lebanon's Economic Committees and General Confederation of Lebanese Workers.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi announced Tuesday that President Michel Aoun has managed to “contain” the crisis that followed Prime Minister Saad Hariri's shock resignation from Riyadh, as he saluted Saudi Arabia over its stances on Lebanon.

“Through his wisdom, composure and prudence, the president has contained all the events and the country has witnessed a return to joy and major unity,” al-Rahi said after talks with Aoun in Baabda, declaring that “the latest crisis has ended.”

The Kataeb Party on Tuesday called for turning the crisis that followed Prime Minister Saad Hariri's shock resignation from Riyadh into “a chance for producing real stability in the country.”

Lebanon should not enter a crisis “at every local or regional juncture,” the party urged in a statement issued after the weekly meeting of its political bureau.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc lauded Tuesday Prime Minister Saad Hariri's decision to suspend his resignation and his intention to conduct consultations aimed at securing “the commitment of all political parties to the policy of dissociation from the region's conflicts and wars.”

In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, which was presided over by Hariri, the bloc also stressed the need for Lebanon to be part of “the Arab system,” urging respect for “Lebanon's Arab ties, the stipulations of the constitution and the Taef Accord.”

Lieutenant General Sir John Lorimer, the UK's incoming Defense Senior Adviser on the Middle East, is visiting Lebanon as part of his pre-appointment tour of the region, the British embassy said on Tuesday.

President Michel Aoun on Tuesday stressed that Lebanon is committed to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 between Israel and Hizbullah, as he slammed Israel's “incessant violations.”

“Israel is continuing its incessant violations of UNSCR 1701, which Lebanon has committed to while Israel is still insisting on breaching it, disregarding the repeated international calls for honoring it,” Aoun told his visitors.

President Michel Aoun has reportedly assured Prime Minister Saad Hariri that Hizbullah party has expressed readiness to dissociate itself from the regional wars, the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on Tuesday.

Sources close to Hariri told the daily that “Aoun has assured Hariri at the end of his bilateral consultations on Monday with the country's political parties that Hizbullah intends to offer assurances that gives a sense of ease in the country.”