The president of Kazakhstan accepted the government's resignation request on Monday, reports the news agency Reuters. The matter was first reported by the Russian state news agency Tass.
Central Asia the government of Kazakhstan has resigned. President Kasym-Žomart Tokaev accepted the government's resignation request on Monday, the presidential office says.
A deputy prime minister has been appointed as acting prime minister Roman Sklyar. The presidential office did not say why the government has resigned.
Government changes are routine in oil-rich Kazakhstan, where political power is concentrated in the hands of the president.
Previously The Central Asian country, which was part of the Soviet Union, has recently distanced itself from its old ally Russia during the war in Ukraine. In June 2022, Tokayev publicly renounced Putin's war policy in Ukraine.
At the time, Tokayev said that the so-called People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, recognized by Russia, are “pseudo-states”. Russia later declared that it had annexed the “people's republics” to itself.
Tokayev caused a stir at the end of last year at the press conference President of Russia Vladimir Putin with when starting his speech in Kazakh.
The content of the speech was diplomatic, but the gesture was considered symbolically significant, because the surprised Russian delegation had to put their interpretation devices in their ears.
In addition, Tokayev apparently deliberately mispronounced Putin's name. The spat is thought to be related to the fact that Putin has pronounced Tokayev's name incorrectly several times.
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