September 26, 2000 - 18:49 AMT
PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN IS SAFE AND SOUND?
The president of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev is safe and sound. Today he is to discharge from Cleveland clinic, where he was undergoing medical check-up at the request of the doctors. As it became known to MEDIAMAX, about this informed the minister of public health of Azerbaijan Ali Insanov, refuting numerous rumors about Heydar Aliyev's death, spread in Azeri and foreign press.
"The check-up indicated that the president of Azerbaijan is absolutely healthy, no departures of his heart functioning are observed. "The chill, caught at the Millenium Summit, is also gone" , the minister said. According to Insanov, Aliyev will return to Baku this week. And still representatives of Azeri opposition assert that at present Heydar Aliyev is alive, but very weak. At the same time representatives of the hospital refuse to give news about Heydar Aliyev's health as it is private information.-0-