Lebanese Sports and Youth Minister Ahmed Fatfat confirmed the news in an interview with the Voice of Lebanon radio station.

"Threats directed at the Saudi and the United Arab Emirates embassies are not new," the minister said.

A female working staff with the UAE Embassy confirmed to Xinhua on condition of anonymity that it is true that the Embassy received terror threat.

She said Ambassador Mohammed Sultan Sowaidi is still in Beirut and has no intention to leave currently.

While the Daily Star on Monday quoted a senior Lebanese official as saying that the Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdel-Aziz Khoja has left Beirut in the face of attack warnings.

Khoja, according to the official, left Beirut on August 17 after the Embassy formally notified the Lebanese Foreign Ministry of a "threat of attack against the ambassador's residence, the embassy or other Saudi interests in Lebanon."

The ambassador, whose government is leading supporter of Lebanon's beleaguered Western-backed government, had already been threatened four or five times in the past, according to Saudi- owned Ash-Sharq al-Awsat (Middle East) daily.

Lebanon has been hit by a wave of attacks in recent years targeting politicians, most infamously the 2005 murder of five- time Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a billionaire businessman who held joint Lebanese and Saudi citizenship. -Xinhua