a lot to talk about there about your application to join the european union and the questions we've had from the floor about how putin will react to it and so on, so just given an answer to all that jumble of questions there. we have been building democracy at gunpoint for three decades now and this is our usual experience, so in that in that case, we are not afraid of any intimidation or any pressure. we have been living with this for three decades. as for the candidate status thing, you know, we see it as a... it's a big thing, actually. for the first time in the last 30 years that we have been independent, europe has recognised that georgia can become member of the european union. you were given this slightly odd phrase, "european perspective". this is what european perspective that six months ago, if anybody asked us whether we would get it and we would be happy about it, we would be ecstatic about it because this is a formal recognition