He added, "The role that I played in Ukraine ended up resulting in Ukraine becoming part of the European community. The kind of work I did when Yanukovych was president was to get the IMF deal to put the financial solvency of the country in balance, and then for the rest of that term I worked really as a back channel with the European Union negotiators on the terms of the agreement that ultimately was signed that got Ukraine into Europe. It was a Nixon-goes-to-China kind of situation. There weren't too many people who could have gotten that agreement done, and Yanukovych was one of them. I was the point guy in getting it done."