President Eduard Kokoity of the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia has welcomed a statement by Taimuraz Mamusurov, the new head of the Russian internal republic of North Ossetia, who said the two republics should be unified. \"South Ossetia\'s incorporation into Russia and its unification with North Ossetia is necessary and inevitable,\" Kokoity told Interfax on Thursday. \"An overwhelming majority of South Ossetian residents have Russian citizenship,\" he said. In an interview published in the Thursday issue of Novaya Gazeta, Mamusurov said that he does not see any other future for South Ossetia and North Ossetia than their unification. \"I believe there is the only prospect. Ossetians are a divided people, we were divided within one country. Therefore, there can be no other option but unification,\" he said. (Interfax)