(ANSA) - NUR-SULTAN, 11 JAN - The president of Kazakhstan Kassym Jomart Tokayev has announced that the approximately 2,000 soldiers of the CSTO, the military alliance led by Russia and of which six former Soviet republics are part, will begin skiing the country in two days.
"The peacekeeping mission has been successfully completed," Tokayev said, stating that the withdrawal will last about ten days.
The president had asked the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty (CSTO) countries to send soldiers to help him regain control of the situation.
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