“On January 18, Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian held talks with his Kazakh counterpart Mukhtar Tleuberdi, who is now on a visit to Brussels, where he is meeting with representatives of European institutions,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Le Drian also recalled that France "attaches great importance to the transparency of revealing the circumstances of the violence
that occurred (during protests in Kazakhstan. -
RT )."
Earlier, the President of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, during negotiations with the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, said that the country was faced with “unprecedented aggression and an attack on statehood,” in connection with which urgent measures were taken to restore constitutional order and law and order.