He noted that the situation in Afghanistan is fraught with civil war.

President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Dushanbe, reports Akorda.

Tokayev supported the common position of the CSTO on the unacceptability of the deployment of Afghan refugees and foreign military bases on the territory of our countries.

He said that, based on humanitarian considerations and the importance of providing international assistance to the Afghan people, personnel of the UN field missions in Afghanistan were temporarily deployed in the city of Almaty.

The President of Kazakhstan expressed concern over the development of the situation in Afghanistan. In his opinion, the socio-economic situation in this country is moving towards a humanitarian crisis.