Oman's Diwan of Royal Court has issued a statement assuring Omani citizens that His Majesty Sultan Qaboos is in good health and is on an annual holiday in Germany.

Sultan Qaboos, 73, has undertaken medical tests but is in good health, the royal court said.

The statement said he runs his country's affairs from Germany, guiding and following up all tracks of development in different parts of the Sultanate, as diligently as his loyal people know him, till such a time that he returns to his homeland.