Gates says Yemen's president appears to be reluctant to support the idea, because it would imply his government is not capable of handling the resettlement.

VOA: standard.2009.05.06

Nikolai Petrov,a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center, says that unlike Abkhazia, which is rich in natural resources, South Ossetia is not capable of existing independently.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26