CAIRO (Reuters) – Kuwait emir’s health has shown “positive improvement,” the cabinet quoted the prime minister as saying, in a tweet on Monday night.

The cabinet prayed “for a speedy recovery and complete health and wellness, and to return him to the homeland in the near future,” it said.

Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah is in the United States completing medical treatment following surgery for an unspecified condition in Kuwait.