Published November 23,2023
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Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stated on Thursday that the battle within the Gaza Strip, the place Israel has killed over 14,800 folks for the reason that Oct. 7 Hamas offensive, has divided the world into no less than two camps.
Speaking at a gathering of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) within the Belarusian capital Minsk, Tokayev warned that measures ought to be taken or “the fire of war may scorch all countries and continents.”
“From the very beginning, we insisted that the conflicting parties make every effort to declare a humanitarian pause and use it to develop long-term settlement,” he stated.
As a results of the battle in Gaza, civilians are struggling, harmless folks, together with kids, have died in massive numbers, Tokayev stated, including that “it is impossible to put up with this.”
While Arab and Muslim nations and others referred to as for a cease-fire in Gaza, a lot of the Western nations maintained that Israel has a proper to defend itself and solely referred to as for humanitarian pauses, an settlement relating to which has been struck whose implementation will begin on Friday.
According to the Kazakh chief, the scenario on the Eurasian continent and alongside the perimeter of the CSTO space of duty can also be tense.
The rhetoric of the group ought to be “tough, but extremely correct, taking into account the dignity of the participating states and their combined military-political potential and power,” he stated.
“The CSTO has shown its successes as an authoritative military-political organization, but there are new tasks ahead that should correspond to the constructive attitude of its participating states.”
The CSTO is a Russia-led bloc and contains post-Soviet states Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Armenia and Belarus.
Source: www.anews.com.tr