"It is hard to forecast when China's peak period of emissions will come, but to my knowledge, it won't come soon."

Huang Huikang, special representative for climate change negotiations of China's Foreign Ministry. Huang said China remained a developing country, and hoped other countries looked at greenhouse emissions more from a historic and per-capita perspective

"All firms will be treated equally and fairly."

Jiang Yaoping, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce, commenting on foreign-funded companies not being able to enjoy favorable tax policies compared to domestic companies, from December 1 this year

"China Telecom has never done such a thing."

Wang Yongzhen, press official with China Telecom, in response to foreign media citing a document released by a U.S. Congressional advisory group alleging his company had rerouted Internet traffic on websites, including that of the U.S. military, through its servers for 18 minutes on April 8 this year

"For the first time, we can say that we are breaking the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic. We have halted and begun to reverse the epidemic. Fewer people are becoming infected with HIV and fewer people are dying from AIDS."

Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS. A report of the UN agency shows the total number of HIV-infected people in 2009 was down slightly from the previous year's 33.4 million and at least 56 countries have either stabilized or achieved significant declines in rates of new HIV infections

"We are not thinking about upcoming elections but about future generations, to whom we should leave what we have admired."

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, calling for a plan to save the tiger at the opening of the first global tiger summit in Saint Petersburg on November 22. Putin said the world's remaining wild tigers are "close to catastrophe"

"There would still be a certain level of violence and probably levels of violence that by Western standards will be pretty eye-watering."

Mark Sedwill, NATO's top civilian in Afghanistan, on the consequences of U.S.-led troops leaving the country by 2014