Information Minister George Kordahi “will not resign” and “this stance has not changed,” sources close to him said on Thursday, shortly after Prime Minister Najib Miqati reiterated his call for the minister to step down.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Thursday again urged Information Minister George Kordahi to step down over an unprecedented diplomatic rift with Saudi Arabia, saying his resignation would be "a priority."

“I reiterate my call for the information minister to put national interest first,” Miqati said in a speech from the Grand Serail, shortly after he met in Baabda with President Michel Aoun.

The United States has called on Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies to restore relations with Lebanon, saying the struggling nation needed international support.

"Our position is that diplomatic channels should remain open if we are to seek to improve the humanitarian conditions of the Lebanese people," State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters.

President Michel Aoun met Thursday with Prime Minister Najib Miqati at the Baabda Palace.

Miqati said he discussed with Aoun the current “Lebanese crisis” and added that he will give a speech today in a press conference at the Gand Serail.

Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib met Wednesday with President Michel Aoun in Baabda, hours after Saudi newspaper Okaz published controversial statements attributed to the minister about the already tense relation with Saudi Arabia.

Two major delivery companies have canceled or drastically scaled back their services between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, employees said on Wednesday, following a major diplomatic row between the two countries.

DHL has stopped inbound and outbound shipments between the two countries, a company employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.

Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has described as inaccurate remarks attributed to him by Saudi newspaper Okaz, amid concerns that the leaks could worsen the current diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia.

Okaz meanwhile said it obtained Bou Habib’s remarks through its “private sources” and that the statements were made by Bou Habib during a meeting with a number of journalists.

The U.S., France and Germany urged Prime Minister Najib Miqati in Glasgow not to resign and to find a way to restart dialogue with Saudi Arabia, al-Akhbar newspaper said Wednesday.

The three countries’ position on the Lebanon-Gulf diplomatic crisis was conveyed to Miqati during meetings he held with world leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow.

There will be a new attempt to convene a Cabinet session once Prime Minister Najib Miqati returns from Scotland, in which a “major official apology” will be made to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, informed political sources said.

In remarks to Kuwait’s al-Anbaa newspaper published Wednesday, the sources said the diplomatic crisis sparked by Information Minister George Kordahi’s remarks has “surpassed Kordahi to affect the entire Lebanese situation.”

Contacts and consultations among the Lebanese parties and with some Arab and foreign capitals are expected to intensify today with the return of Prime Minister Najib Miqati from the climate summit in Glasgow, media reports said.

The contacts aim to find a solution for the diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia and Cabinet will not convene before such an exit is found, al-Joumhouria newspaper quoted sources as saying.