Beijing China January 6 ANI China expressed hopes for the restoration of public order and the stabilisation of rising unrest in Kazakhstan as the Central Asian nation witnessed massive unrest on Wednesday leading to the resignation of the cabinet, reported Xinhua.
The Chinese side believes that what is going on now in Kazakhstan is an interior affair. We are sure that the authorities will resolve the issue in a proper way, Xinhua quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin as saying on Thursday.
The spokesperson said that China and Kazakhstan are strategic partners and have friendly relations.
Wang said that Beijing hopes for a speedy stabilisation of the situation in the country when asked to comment on the dispatch of the Peacekeeping contingent of the Collective Security Treaty Organization CSTO to Kazakhstan.
It came after Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sought help from a Russia-backed security alliance of former Soviet states to quell the unrest in his country.
Tokayev sought military support from the six-member Collective Security Treaty Organization, according to NHK World.
The organization has decided to send peacekeeping forces to Kazakhstan for a limited period, according to the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who chairs the CSTO.