that russia our strategic partner is a member of for instance such organizations as the shanghai cooperation organization with this joint military program also euro sec and the customs union and many other organizations we'd like to participate wherever possible that's our interest but we are not talking about becoming part of another state and neither is russia thinking in such terms are talks with georgia possible. in a certain format the talks with georgia are still ongoing if we think of the geneva talks as for direct dialogue i think it is possible and will be necessary in future . i know right at the moment the prospects to reach a consensus on this matter appear quite negative with first of all the georgian authorities have themselves restricted the possibilities for dialogue by adopting the law on occupied territories this doesn't leave any chance for maintaining a dialogue is there fear of another georgian aggression. we are quite used to it by now and we have had to deal with a number of acts of aggression but now that we have a strategic partnership with russia which defines our mutual obligat

of the shanghai cooperation organization supported russia's actions these are countries that split themselves russia's allies and partners they didn't support russia's actions and they did not recognize the breakaway was how do you feel today when you discuss the matter with officials from go to. let me tell you how it went when the conflict broke out i called for a c.s. . i spoke to my partners and i told them that i had to make a difficult decision i told them i did not expect anything from them i understood how hard it would be for them to make a decision of that sort i said a lot of you have territorial issues a lot of you have economic problems the world we live in is complicated and i wanted to go ahead and floor the decision we've made is final but that does not mean i'm asking you to recognize these new republics if you do recognize them it will be by your own decision if you do not our position will not change now i may be a young and liberal president but i do have some experience and i realize that i would not find many supporters after having made that admission but that is anothe