U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag expressed on Monday strong support for Prime Minister Tammam Salam's efforts to promote consensus but stressed the need for political accountability of the country's leaders towards their citizens.

Kaag noted in a statement “recent citizens’ protests and rightful, public demands for basic services and the effective functioning of government.”

Two Gulf countries have issued travel warnings to Lebanon after peaceful demonstrations against the country's trash crisis turned violent on Sunday.

Bahrain's foreign ministry renewed its call on its citizens on Monday to avoid travel to Lebanon “out of its keenness on their security and safety.”

Speaker Nabih Berri's Amal Movement denied on Monday accusations that its members stirred riots during the latest anti-trash demonstration held in downtown Beirut.

“Some media outlets have been claiming that Amal is involved in an attempt to stir strife and have accused the movement's members of seeking to stir riots to shove it in the latest events,” Amal's press office said in a statement.

The online group calling itself "You Stink” on Monday called for a Saturday demonstration to demand the annulment of the waste management tender whose results were announced earlier in the day by the environment minister.

The movement “salutes all Lebanese who flocked to the Riad al-Solh Square over the past days to respond to the authorities' aggression,” it said in a statement recited by the activist Marwan Maalouf during a press conference.

Top diplomats have contacted Prime Minister Tammam Salam to stop him from announcing his resignation over the country's waste management crisis which spiraled out of control over the weekend.

Ministerial sources told An Nahar daily published Monday that Salam has received phone calls from the ambassadors of major powers, Arab countries and the European Union in an attempt to convince him not to resign.

Speaker Nabih Berri has said it is the right of the people to make their voices heard over the waste crisis but the problem lies in the presidential vacuum which stops short of forming a new government.

According to An Nahar and al-Joumhouria dailies published on Monday, Berri told his visitors that “when the parliament is absent and can't play its role and hold (anyone) accountable, then it's only natural for the people” to act this way.

Thousands of protesters poured into Beirut's Riad al-Solh Square on Sunday demanding that the country's top politicians resign, hours after Prime Minister Tammam Salam hinted he might step down following violent protests triggered by a monthlong trash crisis.

The demonstrations, the largest in years, railed against the corruption and dysfunction that has brought about Lebanon's current political crisis. The country does not have a functioning cabinet or parliament, and hasn't had a president for more than a year.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Sunday urged Prime Minister Tammam Salam not to resign before the election of a new president, while warning anti-government protesters that “anger” alone cannot resolve the country's growing crises.

“The grievances of the protesters are our grievances ... The garbage crisis has reached an unaccepted level,” said Geagea at a press conference in Maarab.

Al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri on Sunday stressed his support for the stances expressed by Prime Minister Tammam Salam in the wake of Saturday's violent protests, while warning of attempts to “topple the government.”

Condemning “any form of extreme security measures in facing peaceful protests,” Hariri cautioned in a statement against “attempts to drag the country into chaos and the unknown.”

The date for announcing the winning waste management bids has been advanced from Tuesday to Monday afternoon, Environment Minister Mohammed al-Mashnouq declared on Sunday.

“At the request of Prime Minister Tammam Salam to double the efforts and speed up the announcement of the winning waste management bids … I have contacted the technical teams assessing the bids and asked them to intensify their efforts to finish their task as soon as possible,” said Mashnouq.