Jan. 11 (UPI) —<\/span> Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday that Russian-led troops will begin leaving in two days after initially being sent to help crack down on protests in that country.<\/p>\n Tokayev told the country’s parliament the withdrawal of the Russian-led military alliance would not take longer than 10 days.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n With the country’s government back in control, Tokayev said the troops’ peacekeeping mission “has been successfully completed.” He said all regions of the country are now stable.<\/p>\n Tokayev originally requested that troops be deployed last week, under the Collective Security Treaty Organization. The treaty organization is a military alliance in Eurasia made up of six former Soviet member states. Deployed troops included units from Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan as well as Russia.\n<\/p>\n This comes a day after Tokayev called protestors in his country “terrorists” and accused them of attempting to overthrow the government. Tokayev declared a national day of mourning on Monday in honor of dozens of people killed during the unrest.<\/p>\n At least 164 people have died and thousands more have been arrested after protesting the country’s leadership after a rise in gas prices.<\/p>\n Tokayev said the foreign troops allowed his security forces in the capital Nur-Sultan to head to other regions in the country to quell the unrest and that the outside forces were not involved in direct clashes with Kazakh citizens.\n<\/p>\n The president also promised reforms on Tuesday to the country’s government and economic problems, major causes of the protests.<\/p>\n Tokayev, who has been in office on an interim basis since 2019, also announced his picks on Tuesday for a new government, including a new prime minister.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1\/3 Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday that Russian-led coalition troops will begin leaving the country in two days and that the staged withdrawal will not take longer than 10 days. Photo courtesy Kazakh President Press Service\/EPA-EFE Jan. 11 (UPI) — Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday that Russian-led troops will begin leaving in two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":746207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Tuesday that Russian-led coalition troops will begin leaving the country in two days and that the staged withdrawal will not take longer than 10 days. Photo courtesy Kazakh President Press Service\/EPA-EFE<\/p>\n