CAIRO - Egypt's intelligence supremo is due to conduct a mediation between Syria and Lebanon that will include the issue of weapons in Palestinian camps, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora said Thursday.

Speaking in Cairo after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Siniora told reporters that he expected intelligence chief Omar Suleiman to visit Syria and Lebanon in the coming days.

"Palestinian weapons in camps should be brought under control and should not leave these camps," he said, in reference to the refugee camps in Lebanon that house an estimated 400,000 Palestinians.

"Lebanon expects Suleiman to play a part in solving this problem between Beirut and Damascus," Siniora said.

Militants from the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command shot and wounded two Lebanese policemen near Beirut earlier this month.

An army surveyor was killed by the same group in October.

The Lebanese army has positions around each of the 12 Palestinian refugee camps across the country but is not allowed to enter them.

A UN Security Council resolution passed in September 2004 called for all militias in Lebanon to be disarmed, a call rejected by PFLP-GC leader Ahmad Jibril despite an escalating crisis between Lebanon and his Syrian backers.

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