The President of Kazakhstan thanked the CSTO for helping to overcome the crisis and sending the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO, said the organization's press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov, RIA Novosti reports.

On Thursday, phone talks were held between the CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas and the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.

"The head of the Kazakh state, in turn, thanked the organization for helping to overcome the crisis and sending the collective peacekeeping forces of the CSTO," Zainetdinov told reporters about the content of the talks.