Yerevan Armenia January 7 ANI Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone and discussed the situation in Kazakhstan.
According to the Armenian Cabinet of Minister's statement on Friday, Pashinyan and Putin discussed the situation in Kazakhstan, as well as the progress in implementing joint steps within the CSTO Collective Security Treaty Organization Sputnik.
The order was given by Pashinyan, the current rotating chair of the CSTO, to begin the peacekeeping mission in protest-hit Kazakhstan. In the same way, Armenia's permanent representative to the United Nations informed the organization of the CSTO mission in Central Asian country.
Hundreds of civilians and military personnel were killed during the recent riots in Kazakh city of Almaty, said on Friday a statement by Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
Kazakhstan is witnessing a protest over soaring fuel prices across the country.
The protest took place in the western city of Zhanaozen against the doubling of the price of liquefied petroleum gas LPG, which most Kazakhs use as car fuel, according to Al Jazeera.