More grounds to grant ex-Soviet regions independence than Kosovo – Kokoity
Interfax, Russia
Nov 17 2006
MOSCOW. Nov 17 (Interfax) – The breakaway regions in three former
Soviet republics have better reasons to seek independence than Kosovo,
President of the breakaway republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity
said at Friday news conference at the Interfax central office in
Moscow.
"We have better political and legal reasons for recognition than
Kosovo," he said, before accusing "the international community of a
policy of double standards toward all four republics."
He was referring to South Ossetia, Abkhazia (both de jure part of
Georgia), Transdniestria (Moldova), and the Armenian-speaking enclave
of Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan).