PEOPLE/POINTS

By YUAN YUAN

PEOPLE/POINTS

“Our exchanges should be focused on high-level and innovative talents, offering cooperative opportunities on a larger scale and a w ider scope for them to achieve breakthroughs in common fields.”

Chinese Vice Prem ier Zhang Dejiang, at the opening ceremony for the 2011 Conference on the International Exchange of Professionals held on November 4 in Shenzhen,south China’s Guangdong Province

“China is against setting an artificial time lim it for the reform or pushing through any solution over which member states still have serious disputes. Gamesmanship or p laying on words w ill lead us nowhere.”

Wang M in, Chinese Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, speaking at a General Assembly plenary meeting on the reform of the Security Council at the UN Headquarters in New York City on November 8

“Both India and Pakistan are im portant countries in South Asia. Their improving bilateral relations are vital for the area’s peace,stability, and development.”

Chinese Foreign M inistry spokesman Hong Lei, speaking at a press briefing in Beijing on November 3 while addressing Pakistan’s decision to grant Most Favored Nation status to India

“W e w ill work w ith the new government only if it makes clear and w ritten comm itments…It is possible that the sixth tranche of loans to Greece would be issued during November.”

Olli Rehn, the Econom ic and M onetary A ffairs Comm issioner of the EU, calling upon the incom ing coalition government of Greece to reaffi rm the indebted nation’s comm itment to implementing the terms of a second international bailout, at a joint press conference follow ing a meeting of finance m inisters of the EU single-currency area in Brussels, Belgium,on November 7

“W e need to focus on getting the fi rewall in p lace. It is all very well saying we’ve got the fi rewall but we need to convincingly show the world that the fi rewall exists and it has sufficient resources in it.”

British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, calling on the eurozone to get “a convincing fi rewall” in place to prevent the debt crisis from spreading, on arriving in Brussels for a meeting of finance m inisters of the EU on November 8

“If the IAEA is turned into a tool at the hands of the United States against Iranians,it w ill discredit itself.”

Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatam i, a senior member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, speaking on November 7 before the release of an IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear program

By YUAN YUAN