secretary of state conda lisa rice still flying following that visit my georgian colleague simply dropped. all communication with us he simply stopped talking to us he stopped writing letters and making phone calls it was apparent that he had some new plans now and those plans were implemented later. mr president am i correct to assume that the way you see it visit by the u.s. secretary of state it's all it was meant to urge president saakashvili into the country do you think the united states was deliberately encouraging georgia to pursue a conflict with them which you know i don't think so the united states is a very large country headed by pragmatic people but in politics connotations a nuance is a very important as it is i don't believe the americans have heard george as president to reinvade but i do believe that there were certain subtleties and certain hints made statements like it's time to restore constitutional order or it's time to be more assertive which could effectively feed saakashvili apparent hopes the b. americans would back him in any conflict that they were stand up fo

an analysis of my georgian counterpart ceased all communication with us following the visit by conda lisa rice maybe that was just a coincidence but i'm almost absolutely sure that that was when they came up with a plan for the military gamble which in shoot in august two thousand and eight. mr president war represents a failure of diplomacy and looking back at the situation three years later what would you have done in a different way what is it that russia failed to do. event there will be. i can tell you frankly had i realized back in july two thousand and eight that mr saakashvili was nurturing such plans in his inflamed hind maybe i would have addressed him in an even tougher way and i would have tried to drag him out of his environment at home get him to come to russia some third country in order to talk to him simply talk him out of this but of course i had no idea so when it all happened even though we had been aware that there were plans in georgia to restore their territorial integrity through the use of force i still thought it was a paranoid scenario that would never become reality

make an analysis my georgian counterpart ceased all communication with us following the visit by conda lisa rice maybe that was just a coincidence but i'm almost absolutely sure that that was when they came up with a plan for the military gamble which ensued in august two thousand and eight. president saakashvili claims that russia has been preparing for war long before august two thousand and eight he cites your previous as then president vladimir putin saying we will show you some northern cyprus that's a quote according to. you a part of the government at the time can you confirm or deny that such deliberations took place. that is just total bunk mr saakashvili generally does a lot of talking and he often loses control of what he's saying there were no discussions of the kind i would know as i've been part of the government for over ten years that's number one and secondly conflicts are no good for anyone ever those who say you can resolve something through violence are liars and conflicts have never resulted in anything good if we had managed to prevent this war it would have been to everyon