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

Chinese Vice Premier 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 limit for the reform or pushing through any solution over which member states still have serious disputes. Gamesmanship or playing on words will lead us nowhere."

Wang Min, 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 important countries in South Asia. Their improving bilateral relations are vital for the area's peace, stability, and development."

Chinese Foreign Ministry 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

"We will work with the new government only if it makes clear and written commitments…It is possible that the sixth tranche of loans to Greece would be issued during November."

Olli Rehn, the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner of the EU, calling upon the incoming coalition government of Greece to reaffirm the indebted nation's commitment to implementing the terms of a second international bailout, at a joint press conference following a meeting of finance ministers of the EU single-currency area in Brussels, Belgium, on November 7

"We need to focus on getting the firewall in place. It is all very well saying we've got the firewall but we need to convincingly show the world that the firewall exists and it has sufficient resources in it."

British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, calling on the eurozone to get "a convincing firewall" in place to prevent the debt crisis from spreading, on arriving in Brussels for a meeting of finance ministers of the EU on November 8

"If the IAEA is turned into a tool at the hands of the United States against Iranians, it will discredit itself."

Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, 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