The Kazakh president meets the Russian president in Moscow after taking office in his country for another seven-year term
The war in Ukraine and the unrest in Armenia over Moscow’s “inaction” against Azerbaijan, clearly staged with a scandal, including last week at the summit of the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty (OTSC or ODKB in acronym in Russian), the so-called Russian NATO, held in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, have endangered alliance cohesion within the ex-Soviet space. Kazakhstan plays a key role in this whole framework as it belongs to the CSTO, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (UEE).
The incident with the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan; the contempt of the Kazakh president, Kasim-Zhomart Tokáyev, towards his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin; and calls from Russia’s most recalcitrant sectors to tighten and even break relations with Kazakhstan seem to have advised the Kremlin to act urgently to prevent alliances with the most trusted countries in its vicinity from collapsing.
For this reason, Putin put all the meat on the grill to convince Tokáyev that his first trip abroad, after his re-election, would be to Moscow. The Kazakh head of state arrived in the Russian capital on Sunday and was received in the Kremlin on Monday by the Russian president, with whom he also participated in other events for the development of mutual cooperation, including a telematic link with the Russian Orenburg Forum. Kazakhstan and the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the start of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The top Russian leader also suggested to his Kazakh guest to create a “union” between Russia and Kazakhstan for gas exports and include Uzbekistan in it.
As soon as they met in the Kremlin, Tokayev told Putin that “For Kazakhstan, Russia has always been and remains the most important strategic partner.” The Russian president responded by agreeing and emphasizing that “our relations have a special character”. Both tried their best to show harmony to emphasize that the recent sour moments in relationships are over.
Last summer in St. Petersburg, Tokayev told Putin to his face that he would never recognize “quasi-states” such as the breakaway Ukrainian republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. That was before Moscow annexed them along with Kherson and Zaporizhia. Later, in Samarkand (Uzbekistan), the Kazakh president told his Russian counterpart that his country “will always respect the territorial integrity and independence of each state and abide by the charter of the United Nations”, a remark that was not very well received in Moscow either. was loved. . Finally, in Armenia last Wednesday, the Kazakh leader told Putin that “we must not allow the brotherly Russian and Ukrainian peoples to be at odds with unresolved resentments for decades or hundreds of years.” Tokayev called for a “joint collective search for a peace formula”.
Source: La Verdad
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