is not a price for the right to have a base, it is a payment for material services provided by the Uzbek side.

The Uzbek government made it clear that we need to leave the base, and we intend to leave it without further discussion.

We are not to be accused of an intention to establish an Islamic caliphate in Uzbekistan,

My chief point is that these interests are indivisible. We cannot and will not have a one-dimensional relationship with any of these countries based, for example, purely on security interests, ... It doesn't work.

We have material to write about because we're not perfect in any way. We have all fallen. The only way we can say these things is because we are 100 percent confident that this is the truth. I've definitely found it to be the one truth in my life.

High price must be paid for anything that is good.