Nur-Sultan. January 15th. INTERFAX - President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed the country's Security Council to accelerate work on the creation of Special Operations Forces and the reform of the national security system, the press service of the head of state reported.
"Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed the Secretary of the Security Council to accelerate work on the creation of Special Operations Forces and submit concrete proposals for reforming the national security system," the information distributed on Saturday said.
The Head of State was informed at the meeting about the progress of the pre-trial investigation of the events that took place in a number of regions in the first decade of January, the results of special operations, as well as other measures to ensure public safety and law and order in the country.
The event was attended by the first heads of the Prosecutor General's Office, the National Security Committee, the Ministries of Defense and Internal Affairs, as well as the leadership of the presidential administration and the Security Council staff.
The situation in Kazakhstan worsened on January 2, when rallies against a sharp increase in prices for liquefied gas began in the city of Zhanaozen in the west of the country. Then they escalated into mass protests across the country with economic and political demands. According to the authorities, destructive elements - bandits and terrorists - took advantage of this, pogroms began, attacks on administrative buildings, police stations, shops. The largest city of the country, Almaty, suffered the most.