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

As for myself, I was never against Russia.

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.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

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

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.

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