Gigi Gigidze, head of European Department in Georgian Foreign Ministry said, the explanations were made in the Foreign Ministry. "We were surprised over the interview of Mr. Furnie to the journal "Tblisiselebi" (Tbilisiers). He was invited to the foreign body to apologize for misunderstanding. He said his interview was not connected with official Paris opinion and his declarations do not represent an opinion of French Republic government, "- he said.

For information, French diplomat a few days ago in conversation with several journalists expressed an opinion concerning Georgian-Russian war radically different from the position of official Paris. Particularly he said aggressor and initiator of a conflict was not a Russian Federation but Georgia.