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KINSHASA, March 30 (Reuters) - Congolese former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose men battled government soldiers in Kinshasa a week ago, is expected to travel to Portugal this weekend but is not being granted exile there, the Portuguese ambassador said on Friday.

"There's no exile. He will leave this weekend in principle if all aspects of the agreements (for Bemba's departure) are in place ... he'll be there as a tourist," Ambassador Alfredo Duarte Costa told Reuters.

Costa added that Bemba, who has been accused of treason by the government and has been sheltering in the South African embassy in Kinshasa since Thursday last week, would go to Portugal for medical treatment. Aides have said he needs follow-up treatment for a leg fractured in December.

There have been intense diplomatic negotiations about the future of the former presidential contender, whose fighters clashed with government troops in the Congolese capital at the end of last week after refusing an order to disarm.

The clashes continued for two days before Bemba's forces were routed and the government issued a warrant for his arrest.

European ambassadors have said up to 600 people were killed in the fighting, the worst in Kinshasa since a presidential election last year aimed at restoring peace to the mineral-rich central African state after a 1998-2003 war.

President Joseph Kabila won Congo's first democratic poll in more than four decades.

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