MOSCOW, Jan 6 Collective Security Treaty Organization forces will not take part in breaking up demonstrations in In Kazakhstan, these are insinuations, CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas told RIA Novosti. «All insinuations that our units will now disperse demonstrations and so on — no, this will not happen. Our Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO have other tasks,» Zas said.
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Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the early days of 2022. Then the residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the Mangistau region — an oil-producing region in the west of the country — opposed a two-fold increase in prices for liquefied petroleum gas, then the protests spread to other cities. A state of emergency has been introduced in Kazakhstan for two weeks. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the republic’s Security Council, removing the first head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, from this post. He asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» On the same night, the CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan in connection with Tokayev's appeal. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow views the events in Kazakhstan as an outside attempt to undermine the security and integrity of the state by force. Read the full text of the interview on the website ria.ru & gt; & gt; Follow the situation in Kazakhstan in an online report & gt; & gt; The CSTO Secretary General announced «a turning point for the better side «in the situation in Kazakhstan