Kazakh president to travel to Uzbekistan on Saturday: source

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrangements to go to Uzbekistan on Saturday, slicing short his excursion to China, a Kazakh government source told Reuters on Friday.

The sudden change of arrangements could demonstrate that the Kazakh government is get ready for a fast approaching declaration of Uzbek President Islam Karimov's demise.

The Uzbek government said on Friday Karimov's wellbeing has pointedly declined and depicted his condition as basic.

(Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Maria Kiselyova)

Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan waits to address attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 28, 2015.