The Republic of Botswana will boycott the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will boycott a weekend summit in South Africa if the incumbent President Robert Mugabe is invited because they do not recognize him as the legal President, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

President Seretse Khama Ian Khama's is among a host of other African and international leaders who are not regarding Robert Mugabe as a democratic and legal President of Zimbabwe following his re-election in the June Presidential election run off.

Botswana's foreign ministry said in a statement that Zimbabwe's current government should not be represented at a political level of the 14-member Southern African Development Community (SADC).

"Botswana does not accept the result of the June 27 run-off election in Zimbabwe as it violated the core principles of SADC, the African Union and the United Nations," the statement said.

SADC invited both political leaders engulfed in power sharing negotiations—the incumbent Robert Mugabe, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara of the smaller faction of MDC.

On Thursday, Tsvangirai and other two party official’s travel documents were confiscated by Zanu PF at the Harare International Airport but were later released prompting Tsvangirai to reschedule his traveling on Friday.

However, the government of Botswana said they want to give Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai a diplomatic passport because of the continued refusal by the Zimbabwean government to give Tsvangirai a passport.

An official in the department of Immigration and Citizenship revealed that they have received instructions to look into the issue of how they can give Tsvangirai a diplomatic passport.

‘We were instructed to see how we can help ease Tsvangirai’s travel as a civic leader in his country after obvious travel restrictions from the government of Zimbabwe, the legal and other aspects of it’, the official said without elaborating further.

The development comes as Tsvangirai ’s emergency travel document was seized as he was about to leave Harare International Airport on his way to a SADC summit.

Reports say Mugabe wanted to avoid Morgan Tsvangirai from attending the SADC troika which is set to debate the Zimbabwean crisis now threatening the entire region.

Meanwhile power sharing are set to resume at the SADC troika, Zanu PF chief negotiator Patrick Chinamasa said.

"The talks never collapsed and all parties are committed to the dialogue. I would also want to confirm Zanu PF's commitment to see the talks end successfully sooner rather than later."

"We cannot continue wandering around without direction, hence the need to swear in parliamentarians and open the House so that the elected members can continue to fulfill their constitutional mandate," he said.