One African rights group meanwhile warned of a bloodbath if the military regime could not be made to moved towards civilian rule.

Foreign Minister Alexandre Cece Loua said Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's condition was "very favourable."

Although the junta leader was currently unable to communicate, he would give a short address to his west African nation soon, he added.

Camara was flown to Morocco and operated on for head wounds after he was shot in Guinea on Thursday by his aide de camp.

"Insubordination and indiscipline within the armed forces are an undeniable, incontestable reality in the armed forces, whether one is for President Dadis or not," Cece Loua told AFP.

Cece Loua also said that Camara, who was operated on at the Mohammed V hospital in Rabat, "is doing well, recognises his entourage and is in full possession of his faculties."

"I can't tell you when he is going to come out of hospital," he added, but for his part, he would stay in the Moroccan capital "for as long as is necessary."

Guinean politicians "recognise that our army needs a profound restructuring in order really to become a republican army," Cece Loua said.

One senior official in Guinea however dismissed this account of Camara's health. "Don't trust the official versions," he warned. According to his information, Camara was in a coma by the time he reached Morocco for treatment.

A junta spokesman has said that Camara was wounded in a coup bid in the west African country, which has been particularly unstable since a massacre of civilians by troops in a Conakry stadium on September 28.

But opposition leader and former prime minister Cellou Dadis Diallo denied there had been a coup attempt.

He characterised the shooting a "a settling of scores between two people who were accomplices but who have since fallen out."

Cece Loua said that an "inquiry will show who were the real authors" of the attack on Camara, stressing that the junta chief had "engaged on a very difficult process of transition, with high stakes and big obstacles."

Camara, he said, "had taken on a struggle against drugs dealing, for the cleaning up of public finances, the struggle against corruption. The number of his enemies matches the number of evils he has tackled."

A French foreign ministry spokesman meanwhile called on all politicians and military officers in Guinea to stay calm and advised the 1,800 or so French nationals in the country to stay vigilant.

Guinean human rights bodies and the United Nations say that at least 150 people died and more than 1,200 were injured when troops opened fire on the crowd in the stadium. The junta says 56 people were killed.

That rally was called to protest at the prospect of Camara standing for the presidency in elections the junta had planned to hold next January. Both the UN and the junta are investigating the massacre.

According to some witnesses, aide-de-camp Lieutenant Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite shot Camara during a heated argument because the junta leader planned to denounce his aide as the key figure in the stadium killings.

Diakite has since gone into hiding with a group of heavily armed men.

The African Encounter for the Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO), based in Dakar, warned Monday of a "new bloodbath" in Guinea unless the junta could be made to hand over power to a civilian transitional adminstration.

The pan-African rights group "calls on ECOWAS (the Economic Community of West African States) and the international community urgently to send military observers to ensure the safety of the population and avoid a new bloodbath."

RADDHO also urged the mediator in Guinea, Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, "to negotiate the depature" of the junta.

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