UNITED NATIONS - UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen will discuss the fate of Palestinian militias in Lebanon in talks in Paris with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas, a UN spokesman said Monday.

Roed-Larsen, who arrived in the French capital Monday, was to have separate talks with the Lebanese and Palestinian leaders on implementation of Security Council Resolution 1559, adopted in September 2004, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

That resolution was aimed at ending Syrian domination of Lebanon and extending the government's authority throughout the country.

It called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops and the disbanding and disarmament of Lebanon's Shiite militia Hezbollah and the 12 Palestinian groups present within and outside refugee camps.

Roed-Larsen's Paris talks will precede a Paris summit between Siniora and Abbas which was initiated by the United Nations, Dujarric said.

The UN envoy was then to head to London Tuesday for talks with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and other British officials, Dujarric said.

Roed-Larsen was due back here late Tuesday to report to UN chief Kofi Annan the next day on progress made in implementing resolution 1559.

Siniora said earlier this month that the presence of militia bases outside the camps would no longer be tolerated.

According to a tacit agreement after the collapse in 1987 of the Cairo accords that regulated Palestinian armed presence, the army refrains from entering the refugee camps, in which carrying light weapons is permitted.

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