Tokáyev assures that Kazakhstan has avoided a coup

“Order has been fully restored in Kazakhstan. The dangers to the country’s security have been repelled,” Tokayev said in a video conference.

The president of Kazakhstan, Kasim-Yomart Tokáyev, has assured today that the constitutional order has been restored and that the country has avoided a coup with the participation of “international terrorists”.

“Order has been fully restored in Kazakhstan. The dangers to the country’s security have been repelled,” Tokayev said in a videoconference with the leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the post-Soviet military alliance led by Russia. .

The president, who thanked the CSTO for sending a military peacekeeping contingent made up of more than 2,000 men, has denounced that the riots in recent days were an “attempted coup.”

“Now it is evident that all these combat actions were coordinated from a single center. They were the decisive phase of an operation planned in detail,” he stressed.

He added that this is demonstrated by “the simultaneous attacks on regional government buildings, the police, strategic infrastructures …”.

“To disperse state resources, the organizers of the attack deployed a broad front. The aggression was simultaneous in 11 regions,” Tokayev said.

The main target of the attack, he added, was Almaty, the country’s largest city and main financial center.

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