A peacekeeping force from an alliance of former Soviet republics, led by Russia, is to be deployed in Kazakhstan to help restore stability to the country following massive protests, said Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pasinian.
“At the request of the President of Kazakhstan Tokayev and in the face of the threat to national security and sovereignty of the Republic of Kazakhstan caused, inter alia, by external intervention, the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO), in accordance with Article 4 of “Collective Security Treaty Organization has decided to deploy its peacekeeping force in Kazakhstan,” Pasinian wrote in a Facebook post.
The force is expected to deploy in Kazakhstan for a limited time in order to stabilize the situation in the country, according to the Russian news agency Sputnik.
On Wednesday, Kazakhstan’s President Qasim-Zomart Tokayev called on Russia and its allies to help deal with the “terrorist threat” in his country, as he described it.
This was the second televised speech of the president in a few hours, as his country is facing the worst riots it has experienced in a decade, due to the increase in the price of LPG.
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