Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin Monday backed a deal to end the 20-month Chechen war brokered by peace envoy Alexander Lebed and was due later to brief President Boris Yeltsin on the agreement.
But there was no sign yet of a meeting between security chief Lebed and Yeltsin, whose spokesman again reassured the world that the president was well.Kremlin press service chief Igor Ignatyev said Yeltsin was in a brisk mood during his vacation and he would meet Chernomyrdin at his holiday home Monday to discuss the Chechen peace deal.
Yeltsin, who suffered two heart attacks last year, has not met Lebed since the latest peace missions, and he has rarely been seen in public.
Itar-Tass news agency quoted a Kremlin source as saying that Yeltsin had undergone a course of "preventative" treatment.