The Koba and Truso Gorges are Ossetian land, sanctuaries and graves of ancestors of the Ossetians are located there, but that's why these territories should be returned to South Ossetia, the ex-President Eduard Kokoity said yesterday in an interview devoted to the upcoming fifth anniversary of the recognition of the independence of South Ossetia. The Head of the Department for Caucasian Studies of the RISS, Yana Amelina, confirmed in a conversation with Vestnik Kavkaza that these lands should in fact be returned to the South Ossetian government.
"In my opinion, Eduard Kokoity is quite right to raise this question. The Ossetian government first of all needs major goals, we cannot limit our goals only to recovery and economic development, there must be geopolitical goals. And further reduction of Georgia as a state is of course on the agenda, because this state is not justified. Furthermore, historical justice must be restored," Amelina outlined a range of problems associated with it.
