President Michel Aoun is holding contacts with local and regional leaders to secure the resumption of Cabinet session and resolve the crisis with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf countries, Baabda Palace sources said.

A group of U.S. congressmen held meetings Saturday with Lebanon's top leaders during a fact-finding mission to a country roiled by an unprecedented economic crisis.

The delegation is to report to President Joe Biden and the Congress and propose ways to help the Lebanese. Lebanon's new government, in place since September, has struggled to kick off reforms and negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.

The Lebanese Army has stopped a boatload of 91 people including Syrian and Palestinian refugees from departing Lebanon illegally.

Hizbullah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Saturday noted that there is a “real chance” to resolve the political dispute that led to the suspension of Cabinet sessions.

Lebanese security forces have thwarted an attempt by more than 80 people to illegally cross by sea into Europe from Lebanon.

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Friday said that his party “backs the resumption of the Lebanese government’s meetings.”

He, however, added that the government should only meet after “addressing the reasons that led to the meetings’ suspension.”

President Michel Aoun on Friday stressed that he will “continue to work for Lebanon’s rise from the multiple difficulties and tough circumstances that it is going through.”

“I hope the last year of my tenure will witness the beginning of real revival and recovery,” Aoun said.

President Michel Aoun has said that he won’t sign a decree that reschedules the parliamentary elections for March 27. “If I receive it, I will return it for reevaluation,” Aoun said.

Aoun told al-Akhbar newspaper that he will not approve that the elections take place on any other dates than May 8 and May 15. “No one can impose a decree on the president,” he added.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Friday met with Prime Minister Najib Miqati and said he handed him “a report prepared by the BDO, Semaan, Gholam & Co auditing company.”

“The report was prepared at my request and it includes an auditing of my personal bank accounts and the accounts that have been mentioned in the press for the past year and a half and are the subject of judicial investigations,” Salameh said after the meeting.

Information Minister George Kordahi has stressed that remaining in his post is the “sacrifice,” not his resignation.

Speaking to al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Friday, Kordahi said he is “open to any solutions that would achieve the national interest.”