CIS is ready to help Kazakhstan in fighting terrorism

MOSCOW, Jan.6, (ST)-The Commonwealth of Independent States Anti-Terrorism Center has asserted its readiness to offer assistance to the authorities of Kazakhstan to avoid terrorist and extremist dangers.  

 

In a statement released on Thursday, the center expressed concern over the situation in Kazakhstan. 

 

The Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) made the decision to send peacekeeping forces of the Organization to Kazakhstan, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, who chairs the Council in 2022, said today.

 

“In view of the address of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and considering the threat to national security and sovereignty of the Republic of Kazakhstan, caused in particular by interference from the outside, the CSTO Collective Security Council in accordance with Article 4 of the Collective Security Treaty made the decision to send CSTO Collective Peacekeeping Forces to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a limited period with the aim of stabilization and normalization of the situation in this country,” Pashinyan wrote in Facebook.

 

Terrorist groups tgat have been trained abroad are driving the unrest that killed 12 members of army and security forces and wounded hundreds. 

 

Basma Qaddour