"While managing its own affairs well, China is willing to join hands with other countries and play an active role in international cooperation against the financial crisis."

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang at the opening ceremony of the 2009 China Development Forum in Beijing on March 22

"We shall never recognize Kosovo's independence... Not now. Not in a year. Not in a decade. Never."

Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic speaking at the UN Security Council's closed-door session on February 14, pledging to use all diplomatic, political and economic means possible to stop the ethnic-Albanian-majority province from seceding

"As the clock ticks, we are placing more weight on countermeasures after a launch."

South Korea's top nuclear negotiator Wi Sung Lac quoted by Yonhap before he left for Beijing on March 24 for talks aimed at reviving efforts to verify North Korea's nuclear programs amid growing unease over Pyongyang's plans to launch a rocket

"The Americans are now facing practically insurmountable difficulties in deploying their strategic anti-missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic."

Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's envoy to NATO, appearing on Vesti-24 channel after Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's minority center-right government lost a vote of confidence on March 24 poll and would probably leave office after the country's term as European Union president finishes in June

"As we have seen with AIG, distress at large, interconnected, non-depository financial institutions can pose systemic risks just as distress at banks can."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in a push for government authority to shut down troubled institutions like insurer AIG to avoid the need for future bailouts