I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

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

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 am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.