MOSCOW: The president of Georgia's pro-Russian separatist republic of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity, late Sunday dismissed his government and proclaimed a state of emergency in the rebel region, Russia's television reported. "I have signed three decrees including one on the resignation of the government, another on proclamation of a state of emergency in South Ossetia and the third on setting up an emergency committee to settle the consequences of the Georgian aggression," Kokoity told the channel. He accused his government of being slow in distributing humanitarian aid to the residents of South Ossetia, stressing that a public servant "must work for his people and not to make profit for himself." South Ossetia, which is officially part of Georgia but declared independence in 1992 after the fall of the Soviet Union, is determined to win recognition after the failure of a Georgian military operation to reclaim it by force. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday signed a peace deal a day after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and a week after Russian forces invaded Georgia in support of separatists in the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions.
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