"China hopes the next president will further enhance developing countries' rights to speak and represent themselves at the World Bank, and, therefore, make contributions to global poverty reduction and development."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin, commenting on the election process for the next World Bank president, at a regular press briefing in Beijing on April 11

"My team and I will be people-oriented, introducing policies and measures to meet people's need. We will continue to go and visit the general public, listening to people's concerns, enhancing the level of policy studies, and strengthening investigations on social and economic issues."

Leung Chun-ying, newly elected Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, telling Xinhua News Agency in Hong Kong in an exclusive interview published on April 11

"Iran's representatives will participate in the negotiations with new initiatives and we hope that the G5+1 countries will also enter talks with constructive approaches. We are ready to hold progressive and successful talks on cooperation."

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, in an interview with the local satellite Press TV on April 11

"This means that our economy has fully overcome the consequences of the recession registered in 2008, 2009 and even 2010."

Russian Prime Minister and President-elect Vladimir Putin, commenting on Russia's 4.8 year-on-year GDP growth in February 2012, in his annual address to the lower house of parliament in Moscow on April 11