Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

I think if someone else other than Reagan, someone less of a hardliner, had been in power then the breakthrough in ending the Cold War would not have happened.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

I believe politicians should always remain realistic.

I believe that with the help of foreign countries - and under that condition only, because they have no other source of financing - the new government may temporarily extricate Georgia from the current situation.