Zimbabwe’s blacklisted President Robert Mugabe is to be invited to a summit on European soil later this year – in the hope and expectation that he will refuse to turn up.

Britain and America are expected to table a new United Nations resolution next week intended to give the international green light for military action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe will be allowed to visit Paris next week for an African leaders’ summit, European Union governments reluctantly agreed yesterday.