France proclaims medical secrecy to overshadow Butaflika's disease

The French foreign minister Philip Doust announced that morality and necessities of the medical issues prevents revealing the health condition of the Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika.

Since November 26th, Butaflika has been treated in "Val De Grace " military hospital in Paris. Algerian official sources stressed since one week that he underwent a surgery in his stomach.

In a statement to one TV station, Doust Balazi said that the information on the disease from which the Algerian President suffers was given only to his family and associates.

The French Minister expressed his hope that Butaflika will leave the hospital shortly. Worthy mentioning that the long stay of President Butaflika, 68 years old, in hospital together with the secrecy imposed on his disease raised predictions over the seriousness of his health condition.