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.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.