RIYADH, May 28: Saudi King Fahd is in a stable and reassuring condition after undergoing medical tests in hospital, Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Saturday.

“His condition is stable... The results of medical tests make us reassured,” Saud told reporters in the first official reference to the outcome of the examinations conducted after Fahd was transferred to the King Faisal Specialist Hospital on Friday.

Prince Saud did not give details, but official sources earlier told AFP the monarch, believed to be aged 84, had a lung infection.

Saud was speaking to reporters after a two-hour “consultative” summit of the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which went ahead as scheduled despite concerns about the health of King Fahd, who has been frail since suffering a stroke in 1995.—AFP