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South Ossetia Doesn’t Intend to Join the RF, Lavrov Said
South Ossetia doesn’t intend to join the Russian Federation, the RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced in Warsaw, RIA Novosti reported.
I don’t know where you have taken this information, Sergei Lavrov told the reporters after meeting with Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. South Ossetia has no intention to be included, Russia’s minister said, specifying that, in South Ossetia, they simply realized that they were unable to guarantee their security without proclaiming independence.
Uniting the divided Ossetian nation is of humanitarian rather than of political nature, and South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity didn’t mean joining the Russian Federation, South Ossetia’s Envoy to Russia Dmitry Medoev explained when commenting on the statement of Kokoity.
Earlier on Thursday, Kokoity announced that South Ossetia, which independence from Georgia Russia recognized in August, is going to unite with North Ossetia and enter Russia. Kokoity made the respective statement when addressing the Valdai International Debating Club.
According to Medoev, Kokoity was referring to the problem of divided Ossetian nation. “The attempts are to make this humanitarian problem political. For the Ossetian nation, unity doesn’t mean that a part of Ossetia will necessarily politically unite with another part. It isn’t the essence of problem,” Medoev pointed out.
“The words of Kokoity were misunderstood or misinterpreted. If taking up the political component, for us, the issue of unity will be solved by jointing the Union State of Russia and Belarus,” Medoev explained
“As to the political component of the issue, it is simple. North Ossetia is the RF constituent, while South Ossetia is the state recognized by the Russian Federation that is independent of Georgia.”
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