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"Comrade Meng Xuenong has rich experience in government work and a strong sense of innovation."
Xinhua News Agency's report on Meng's transfer to Shanxi, quoting
Li Jianhua, Vice Minister of Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
"I'm like a seed to be sown into the fertile soil of Shanxi."
Meng Xuenong, expressing his determination to integrate with locals after being appointed as acting governor of Shanxi
"We are moving from a country that keeps its secrets in the interests of security, to one that shares them in the interests of security."
Shen Dingli, professor at Shanghai's Fudan University, quoted by Agence France-Presse commenting on China's participation in the United Nations Military Transparency Mechanism and its resumption of providing the requested data for the UN Register of Conventional Arms starting from this year
"If the security situation continues to improve as it has, we may be able to achieve the same objectives with fewer troops."
U.S. President George W. Bush, speaking to reporters after a surprise visit to Iraq on September 3
"We showed clear willingness to declare and dismantle all nuclear facilities."
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, speaking to reporters after concluding two-day talks with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill in Geneva on September 2
"The Gaz de France and Suez deal shows that the European Commission's plans to really open the internal market to ompetition in the energy sector is going nowhere."
Christian Egenhofer, energy analyst at the Center for European Policy
Studies, a research group in Brussels, commenting on the merger of the French state-owned natural gas company Gaz de France and the utility Suez, which will create one of the world's largest energy groups
"I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life."
Legendary Italian designer Valentino, at his retirement on September 4 | 
