Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a virtual meeting on Jan. 10 of the Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on stabilizing the situation in Kazakhstan. This was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov today reported TASS. Earlier, the office of the CSTO chair, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, also confirmed this. Pashinyan, Putin and Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko had discussed convening the meeting in a phone call on Jan. 8, according to the Kremlin.
Since Jan. 6, CSTO peacekeeping forces of around 2,600 have aided Kazakhstan in quelling the rioting and turmoil. The effort of the CSTO, compromised of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Armenia, was requested Jan. 5 by the government of Kazakhstan, and represented its first peacekeeping deployment.
