The official representative of the US State Department of Ned Price said that the United States has “questions” to send the peacekeepers of the Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) to Kazakhstan. ON RIA Novosti.
According to him, “questions” about sending the military arise, as Kazakhstan has its own resources. Price noted that the government of the country in the past was well protected and in the present protected.
In addition, the representative of the State Department emphasized that the United States and the whole world will closely monitor violations of human rights in Kazakhstan, as well as for any actions that can help organize prepositions for capturing various institutions.
Previously, a spokesman for the White House, Jen Psaki stated that the United States did not know whether the request of the authorities of Kazakhstan was a legitimate to deploy the CSTO forces in the country. In response, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharov noted that some representatives of the United States do not understand what is happening in the country and issue it for the official position.
January 5, President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Zhomart Tokayev appealed to the CSTO for help because of the riots started in the country. Russia sent units of airborne troops. The next day, the advanced group of the organization’s peacekeeping forces began to work in Kazakhstan.
On January 2, protests began in Kazakhstani cities due to the increase in gas prices for cars from 60 to 120 tenge. Later, they turned into disorders with the requirements of the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev from politics, new elections and dissolution of parliament.