Large-scale action is on in Georgia to upset South Osset stability, warned the President while addressing newsmen today.
"Georgia is dead set against negotiations, and loath to follow acting understandings. South Ossetia has been forced to sever whatever contacts with Georgia, work on a joint ad hoc team and a joint expert group being sole exception."
Contacts will not resume before Georgia complies with certain provisos.
First, it must approve a law on Georgian refugees re-instated in their rights.
Second, Georgia's parliament must make a political appraisal of the 1989-91 tragedy, and acknowledge South Osset genocide of that time.
Third, Georgia must reimburse South Osset damages, which experts evaluate at a lump 34 billion roubles in 1991 prices.
Georgia has blueprinted action which the South Osset top regards as provocative and aiming to destabilise the area. That will be a Peace Walk across South Ossetia to gather alleged refugees and Kmara league activists.
"At present, South Ossets have blocked a huge motorcade led by stars of the Tbilisi-based Dynamo football team.
"Accompanied by a big support group, the men were heading in jeeps for a so-called friendly meet of the Dynamo and a rural team. The motorcade has been stopped and will be forced to go back to Georgia," President Kokoity went on.
"I am sure South Ossetia will quite soon join Russia to merge with North Ossetia [Russia's autonomy, where an Osset majority is settled].
"South Ossetia has every historical, political and legal reason to apply to join Russia.
"We hold the international law in due respect, just as the territorial integrity of every country, Georgia being no exception-but South Ossetia bears no relation whatever to Georgia," stressed the President, and made a historical excursus to bear out his point.
In compliance with a Russo-Turkish agreement of 1921 on Transcaucasia, the South Osset nation "became a free subject as soon as the Georgian Soviet Republic ceased to be, and proclaimed independence to vote for joining Russia".
President Kokoity called to regard the South Osset dispute in the vein of the divided nation concept.
"I appeal to the world to take into consideration not only laws on, and claims for territorial integrity but the right of nations to self-determination. In this particular instance, the right of Ossets as a divided nation must be reckoned with.
"We shall quite soon discard the epithets 'South' and 'North' with reference to Ossetia, and Ossetia the one and only will find itself within the Russian Federation. Of that, I am sure," emphasised the President.
South Ossetia has applied to the State Duma, the Russian parliament's lower house, and to the Russian top to enter the Federation, he added.
