"Lawyers should behave like an upright broker to close the gap between different economies and cultures."

Zhang Yuejiao at an annual seminar of the International Bar Association

"The membership of the Appellate Body should be broadly representative of the WTO membership."

Geneva-based WTO saying on its website, requiring impartiality as a necessity for the selected judges

"Please don't demonize us."

Pan Jiazheng, head of the Quality Control Panel for the Three Gorges Project, slamming some Western media's selective, "distorted" and exaggerated reporting on the world's largest water conservancy project

"We agreed to immediately launch good faith, bilateral negotiations in order to conclude a peace treaty resolving all outstanding issues, including core issues, without exception."

Joint statement of Israeli and Palestinian leaders issued on November 27, the first day of a U.S.-sponsored Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Maryland, pledging to immediately restart peace talks between the two sides

"This army is my life, this army is my passion. I have loved this army."

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, addressing a ceremony on November 28 when he formally quit his army post. Musharraf was sworn in as a civilian president on November 29

"We apologize to the children who have fallen ill after swallowing the beads, and their families. We also apologize to other Chinese toy makers who have been affected by the damage to the Made-in-China label."

Hong Kong-based JSSY Co. Ltd., saying in a written apology issued on November 28. The company admitted that it had used a toxic chemical as a softener in the toys that were recalled in the United States and Australia earlier this year

"Take full responsibility for the involvement of the Japanese Imperial Forces in the system of forced prostitution, including through a formal and sincere apology to all of those who were victims."

A motion unanimously passed by Canada's parliament on November 28 urging Japan to apologize to foreign women forced into sexual servitude during World War II