Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was interviewed by Egypt`s one of the leading televisions Alhyat. The journalist of the television put questions to the president about Georgian reforms, police reform in particular; Georgia-Russia relations and so-called Arab Spring.
`We just started with the police because police was essential - we just fired all of them one day and for three or four months we were without police; we recruited people and we trained them very fast, gave them new equipment, new cars, I mean they did not have cars in the past, we gave them new uniforms, new guns, but the main thing was the respect of the society. Previous police was respected by 6% of the society of trusted, this one has 85-86% of confidence,` Saakashvili said.
Journalist`s next question was about Putin and his return as the president in Russia for the third term.
Saakashvili said Putin had not left in fact and Georgian people had no illusions about that.
`Now this situation is better for us because before those people who wanted to believe illusions they were believing their own illusions, fine, now they know at least that the game is open. But the main thing that is happening is that Russia, its society needs to modernize and this is the guy who tells then `I`ll bring you back to the Soviet Union, but there is no more Soviet Union, it`s over, it`s finished, it`s dead, you cannot dig it out and bring it to life, so that`s why there is no future for this kind of approach,` Saakashvili said.
President also reviewed the possibility of spread of Arab spring. Saakashvili was answering journalist`s questions for half an hour.
