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.

Bahrain on Tuesday urged its citizens in Lebanon to immediately leave the country amid a row between Beirut and Arab Gulf states over a Lebanese minister's remarks on the Yemen war.

The foreign ministry "urged all citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately, following the tense situation there, which calls for extra caution," it said in a statement carried by the official Bahrain News Agency.

Judge Tarek Bitar, the lead investigative judge probing the Beirut port blast, stressed to the families of the victims on Tuesday that “pressures or threats will not push him to back down,” al-Jadeed TV reported.

“I will not back down from the Beirut port file unless I’m removed through the available legal means,” al-Jadeed quoted Bitar as telling the families during a meeting on Tuesday.

The Hizbullah-led March 8 forces have not completely closed the door in the face of the possibility of the resignation of Information Minister George Kordahi, highly informed sources said.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on the Gulf nations to “re-commit to Lebanon with the aim of achieving reforms and regaining the country’s sovereignty,” a French Presidency source said, shortly after Macron met Prime Minister Najib Miqati in Glasgow.

In their talks, Macron reiterated his support for Mqiati to “realize and implement the reforms program,” hoping the Lebanese political parties “will allow Cabinet to convene despite the crisis with the Gulf countries,” the source added, according to al-Liwaa newspaper.