Kyrgyzstan’s President Almazbek Atambayev has arrived in Moscow for a treatment, press service of the Kyrgyz president told on Friday.

“Following recommendations from specialists and at the invitation of the Russian side, the rpesident today, on September 23, has arrived in the Central Hospital in Moscow for further treatment with doctors, who earlier tested him and made treatment for a heart disease,” the press service said.

“On September 19, 2016, at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul, the president felt bad – at the airport the Kyrgyz delegation planned a connection on the way to New York to participate in the 71st session of the UN General Assembly. The medical tests have shown symptoms of a heart disorder and the president was recommended to undertake urgent medical tests and to have doctors observe him.”

“As the president had to undergo medical tests,” he is now on a short break from September 20, the press service said.