CAIRO, Sept 28, 2008 (AFP) - Rival Palestinian factions will meet in Cairo in November to launch an Egyptian plan aimed at forming a national consensus government, a Fatah official said on Sunday.

'We expect the Palestinian national dialogue to take place on November 4 for one day, in order to end the divisions between the Palestinians,' senior advisor to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Nabil Shaath, told AFP.

He said the talks would be followed a week later by a meeting of Arab foreign ministers to adopt the agreement.

He said 13 Palestinian factions will participate in the talks, headed by Abbas's Fatah faction and the rival Islamist movement Hamas.

Egypt has been acting as a mediator between Fatah and Hamas after the Islamist group, which won a parliamentary election in January 2006, seized control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, routing forces loyal to Fatah.

Egypt's powerful intelligence chief Omar Suleiman has been holding separate talks with the rivals and is expected to meet with a Hamas delegation on October 8.

On Tuesday, Fatah agreed to an Egyptian proposal to create a new government that would be acceptable to the international community.

Shaath said the Egyptian proposal calls for the creation of 'a national consensus government tasked with five issues: lifting the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, opening the Rafah border crossing (between Egypt and Gaza), unifying and restructuring the security services, and preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections at an appropriate time.'