MOSCOW, January 6/ Sputnik Radio. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that Kazakhstan "cannot be given" to the external forces that provoked chaos, since it will be the same "gift as Ukraine for the United States."
The Belarusian leader made the corresponding statement on Thursday at a meeting on the implementation of historical policy.
The Belarusian leader drew attention to the fact that in Alma-Ata and Nur-Sultan, protesters tried to seize the airport.
In his opinion, the radicals made such an attempt in order to prevent the units of the CSTO peacekeeping contingent from landing in Kazakhstan and to help stabilize the situation.
Protest actions in Kazakhstan began on January 2. Initially, residents of the cities of Zhanaozen and Aktau came out to rallies against a twofold increase in prices for liquefied gas.
However, soon clashes with the police and attempts to seize authorities began to occur in other cities of the republic.
On the fourth of January, the authorities ordered to introduce state regulation of prices for liquefied gas and gasoline for six months and returned prices to the previous level, but the protesters did not calm down, and by the evening looters became more active.
On January 5, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev dissolved the government and announced that he was becoming the head of the Security Council instead of the first president of the republic, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
A state of emergency has been imposed on the entire territory of the republic.
The Kazakh authorities have asked for help from other CSTO members to neutralize the "terrorist threat".
The Organization has sent a collective peacekeeping force to the Republic. Their main tasks will be the protection of important state and military facilities and assistance to the Kazakh security forces in stabilizing the situation.
Earlier, Sputnik radio reported that the European Union condemned the violence and pogroms in Kazakhstan.
