No further decisions from Parliament are needed on the use of the Army in the framework of the CSTO peacekeeping operation in Kazakhstan, as the treaty and the organization’s charter were at the time ratified by Moscow, the parliamentarian wrote. on Facebook.
He clarified that the task of the bloc also made up of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan will be the protection of state and military facilities and assistance to the forces of order, which must be in charge of restoring normalcy in the Asian nation.
“Our mission is to help them preserve the country by guaranteeing its security, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty, as established in the Collective Security Treaty,” Kosachev explained.
He stressed that the support of the CSTO is legitimate both from the point of view of the internal legislation of the member countries of the organization and of international law. “Although one can imagine how it will be evaluated by those external forces that would like to see a different power in Kazakhstan,” he said.
He considered that the CSTO peacekeeping operation could have been avoided if the social protests had not reached the extremist and law-breaking phase.
The senator drew attention to the fact that the demonstrations of rejection of the increase in the prices of liquefied gas were accompanied by the response of the authorities to freeze prices and remove the Government, measures that, however, had no effect. .
He also referred to the expansion of the geography of the protests to almost the entire country and the change in the rhetoric of the protesters from the economic and social issue to that of politics.
He warned that such claims also received an instantaneous reaction from the state, with the replacement of the leadership of the Security Council and the publicly expressed will of the Kazakh President, Kasym-Zhomart Tokáyev, to undertake reforms in the country. “But this didn’t help either,” he emphasized.
For the vice president of the Russian Senate, the latest extremist actions such as the taking of official buildings, the destruction of public institutions, the use of weapons, vandalism and looting show that the events did not occur spontaneously.
“Ultimately it is not about gas, but about power, which will be overthrown by all available methods, the main of which is terror,” he said.
According to Kosachev, the conflict, which at an initial stage seemed socio-economic and therefore exclusively internal, “acquired the features of an aggressive destruction of the country’s government system through terrorism.”
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