I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.
I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...
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 couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.