Tskhinvali, Sukhumi: It’s not fair to compare South Ossetian breakaway region with Kosovo, the South Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity stated yesterday.

In an interview, the South Ossetian President stated South Ossetians have far more right to a state of their own than Kosovo Albanians.

Kokoity said, “Kosovo Albanians got independence after NATO’s aggression on Serbia. Americans and NATO member countries took away Serbia’s province. I feel sincerely for the Serb people.”

The South Ossetian President also did state that South Ossetia has no intention of recognizing Kosovo. He said, “Serbs had a well-organized state that provided for a normal life for Albanians. For this reason, what Americans have done to the Serbs is injustice.”

Kokoity expressed hope that many other countries will in the near future follow Russia’s example to recognize the two new states in the Caucasus — South Ossetia’s and Abkhazia’s independence.

He added, “Our goal is to unite with North Ossetia, which is a part of the Russian Federation. All Ossetians should live in one state. We find the position of the West unclear. Why are they now protecting the Tbilisi leadership.”

According to Kokoity, both in the cases of South Ossetia and Kosovo, the United States and its allies sided with those who planned to take other countries’ territory by force.