The head of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon said Palestinians living in 12 refugee camps refuse to hand over their arms to the authorities. Sultan Abul Einein made the comment Monday following a Sunday meeting with Farouk Kaddoumi, chief of the Fatah faction and head of the PLO's political department, at the Rashidiyeh refugee camp in south Lebanon. Kaddoumi is visiting Lebanon to discuss with local PLO officials the disarming of Palestinians as stipulated in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559.Abul Einein told UPI, "The Palestinian people refuse to surrender their personal arms until they return to their homeland, in line with U.N. Resolution 194." Kaddoumi said heavy arms were handed over to Lebanese authorities in 1991, and the refugees' remaining light arms are for self-defense and for organizing security inside the camps. "We say there are no big arms in the Palestinian camps, and now it is Lebanon's turn to implement agreements by granting the refugees their civil rights," Kaddoumi said. "The Lebanese authorities should also issue a general pardon for all Palestinians who were tried and sentenced wrongly," he added, in reference to Abul Einein, who was sentenced to death by absentia for involvement in terrorism.