By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
South Ossetia does not want to become part of Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, after South Ossetia's leader made contradictory statements that could undermine part of Russia's justification for last month's war.
Lavrov spoke in Warsaw, Poland, just hours after South Ossetia's leader, Eduard Kokoity, met with a group of foreign policy experts in the Black Sea city of Sochi and was quoted as saying union with Russia was South Ossetia's historic goal.
"Yes, certainly, we will become part of Russia ... and we are not going to make some independent Ossetia, because our ancestors made this choice," Kokoity was quoted by Interfax and RIA-Novosti as saying.
Kokoity was later quoted as reversing those statements in an interview with Interfax.
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