Armenia on Saturday announced that it will organise an online Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit on the ongoing civilian unrest in Kazakhstan. The initiative comes as at least one person was killed, and 49 others were wounded in the mass riots countrywide as civilians protested against the fuel price hike in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau region, Russian state-affiliated channels reported, citing the region’s head Makhambet Dosmukhambetov. The Kremlin does not yet have information about the specific dates for the video conference of the leaders of the countries that are a member of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), but the meeting is slated to take place in the Russian presidential, spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.

President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a telephonic dialogue with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the country’s law and order breach, noting that it was slowly spiralling towards stabilisation after the CSTO countries, of which Russia is a part, sent peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan. Tokayev noted that he plans to initiate a video conference of the CSTO Collective Security Council under the chairmanship of Armenia, a proposal Russia agreed to.

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