Over the course of the year 1990, the then Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had many conversations with President [Mikhail] Gorbachev and other Soviet officials.

I repeat that, in my opinion, the European Commission and the leading European economies are acting very pragmatically and are on the right path.

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

We have good joint projects in the helicopter and aircraft manufacturing industry. We are considering cooperation and are actively cooperating in space. There are good prospects there [with China].

They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with us, you are against us.' To make this aggression look legitimate, they force the necessary resolutions from international organizations, and if for some reason this does not work, they simply ignore the UN Security Council and the UN overall.

I don’t regret anything. I did everything absolutely correctly.