Armenian PM Pashinyan discusses Kazakhstan situation with Putin

Yerevan [Armenia], January 7 : Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the phone and discussed the situation in Kazakhstan.
"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 quoted, according to the Armenian Cabinet of Minister's statement on Friday.
Pashinyan, as the current rotating chair of the CSTO, officially gave the order to begin the peacekeeping mission in protest-hit Kazakhstan. In the same light, Armenia's permanent representative to the United Nations informed the organization of the CSTO mission in the Central Asian country.
Hundreds of citizens and military personnel were injured and killed in Kazakh city of Almaty during the recent riots, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday expressing his condolences to the families of those killed during the protests, Sputnik reported.
Kazakhstan is witnessing a massive protest over soaring fuel prices across the country.
The protest took place in the western town of Zhanaozen against the doubling of the price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which most Kazakhs use as car fuel, Al Jazeera reported.
Amid nationwide agitation in Kazakhstan, protesters earlier pulled down the statue of the country's first President Nursultan Nazarbayev. A state of emergency has been declared in the country in the light of the eruption of this violent protest.