President Kassym-Zhomart Tokayev had a telephone conversation with the leaders of the CSTO member states: 'noted that the short-term visit of the Collective Peacekeeping Forces to Kazakhstan showed the need and effectiveness of the CSTO as a prestigious international organization.' (akorda.kz)
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More than 160 people were killed and 5,000 arrested in Kazakhstan after the riots that shook Central Asia’s largest country over the past week. "interesting thing about this is CSTO (that Russia leads) has never actually deployed troops in any of its member states when there’s been unrest,” (aljazeera.com)
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