Demonstrations in Kazakh against the government's increase in natural gas prices in early January (January), once developed into a riot that occupied the government office building in the capital Almaty. Kasakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that he would suppress the demonstrations with an iron fist and asked the Russian-led "Collective Security Treaty Organization" (CSTO) to send "peacekeeping troops" to help quell the unrest. After that, the situation in Almaty was temporarily brought under control. Interestingly, CSTO's operation this time is its first peacekeeping
operation since the permanentization of the Collective Security Treaty in 2002. Why at this point in time? And why does CSTO need this once-in-a-lifetime "opportunity"? Legal basis for CSTO's dispatch of "peacekeeping troops" CSTO currently has six member countries: Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. After the collapse of wedding photo retouching services the Soviet Union, in order to consolidate its existing sphere of influence and compete with NATO and even the European Union politically and militarily, Russia led the conclusion of the Collective Security Treaty (also known as the Tashkent Treaty) in 1992. Consistent with the design of Article V of the North Atlantic Treaty, Article 2 of
the Collective Security Treaty stipulates that "when one of the member states encounters a threat to security, stability, territorial integrity and sovereignty ... a joint consultation mechanism will be activated immediately and To coordinate and provide assistance measures to the member states concerned to eliminate the threat”; Article 4 stipulates that “an attack by a member state is equivalent to a violation of all member states of the organization. Including the support of military means." The CSTO officially has its own army after establishing the "Collective P