A serviceman from the Russian contingent of the CSTO peacekeeping forces guarding TPP-3 in Alma-Ata MOSCOW, 12 January . The CSTO Council of Defense Ministers on January 13 at an extraordinary meeting will approve the procedure for the withdrawal of the organization's peacekeepers from Kazakhstan, the CSTO reported. Earlier on Wednesday, the CSTO website reported that the withdrawal of the CSTO peacekeeping contingent from Kazakhstan will begin on January 13 and will be completed within ten days . 
The state of emergency will be canceled in the West Kazakhstan region «The procedure for the withdrawal of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces of the CSTO will be approved by the CSTO Council of Defense Ministers, an extraordinary meeting of which will be held on January 13 this year via videoconferencing,» the message on the organization's website says. Mass protests in Kazakhstan began in the first days of 2022 — residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau in the west of the country opposed a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas. Later, the protests spread to other cities, including Alma-Ata, the old capital and the largest city of the republic: looting began there, militants attacked state institutions, took away weapons. In response, the authorities declared a state of emergency across the country until January 19 and launched a counter-terrorism operation. According to the UN, about 1,000 people were injured during the protests in Kazakhstan. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, 17 Kazakhstani security officials were killed, more than 1.3 thousand were injured. On the morning of January 5, Kazakh President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev dismissed the government and headed the Security Council. At the first meeting of the Security Council under his leadership, Tokayev described the situation in Kazakhstan as undermining the integrity of the state and said that he had asked the CSTO for help «in overcoming the terrorist threat.» The CSTO Collective Security Council decided to send collective peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country. On January 7, Tokayev announced that terrorists, including those who arrived from abroad, continued to resist, and promised to destroy those who did not lay down their arms. In addition, the president noted that all the demands of citizens, expressed in peaceful forms, were heard. 
