"Georgia has done everything to avoid the 2008 war," - The third president of Georgia has stated in an interview with the radio Ekho Moskvy.

According to Mikheil Saakashvili, he offered Vladimir Putin peaceful relations in return for refusal on a placement to the NATO bases on Georgian territory. According to him, he held negotiations with the Kremlin on the issue of return of IDPs, However, Georgia has been rejected.

According to Mikheil Saakashvili, the international community has seen that the events of 2008 are part of a strategy, planned in Kremlin.

"Georgia tried to persuade Russia to refuse from the war. A meeting was held between me and Putin in February 2008. I told him that I am ready to sign an agreement, according to which the military bases of the NATO and any country will not be placed in Georgia in return of a peace between Georgia and Russia. The second attempt to prevent the conflict was to offer IDPs" return to their homes, but we received a rough refusal. Putin directly said that he will carry out his plans, "Mikheil Saakashvili said.