Saudi Crown Prince Salman said on Tuesday that King Abdullah was “well and in good health”, more than 10 days after the monarch underwent back surgery, a message likely to reassure many states keen on the stability of the world’s biggest oil exporter.
No photographs have been released of the monarch, believed to be in his late 80s, since the 11-hour operation on November 17 at the National Guard’s King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh.
“Brothers, I convey to you greetings of ... King Abdullah and I convey to you good news that he is well and in good health,” Prince Salman, who is also the defence minister, told counterparts from the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council at a meeting in Riyadh, in comments aired on Saudi state television. On Monday, Prince Salman”reassured” Saudis about the king’s health at a cabinet meeting, the state news agency SPA reported, but he gave no details when he will be released from hospital.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 28th, 2012.
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