South Ossetia's separatist leader has backtracked after saying his breakaway region is determined to become part of Russia, rather than an independent nation.
Eduard Kokoity said his comments to foreign policy experts meeting in the Russian Black Sea city of Sochi had been misinterpreted, and that South Ossetia was committed to independence. Russia had already recognised South Ossetia as an independent state, along with another Georgian breakaway region, Abkhazia. Russia fought a war with Georgia over the breakaway territories last month.
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