"No country or group of countries can address all security issues on its own. And only when security for all is achieved, can peace and security for individual countries be safeguarded."

Li Baodong, Permanent Representative of China to the UN, at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York

"You will see we are not a boring people."

Maite Nkoane-Mashabane, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, saying that the explosion of African color and culture surrounding FIFA World Cup will make for a more entertaining event than the one seen in Germany four years ago. Nkoane-Mashabane was speaking at the opening ceremony of the South African Pavilion at Shanghai Expo on May 6

"The current negotiations have not been negotiations at all, because no buyers have been given a say."

Luo Bingsheng, Vice Chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association, on the stalled price negotiations between Chinese steel mills and their foreign iron ore suppliers

"Nigeria's international image will be highly dented as a country without the political will to cooperate in the global war on terror."

Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian President, urging lawmakers to pass swiftly anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing laws to stop the country from being blacklisted globally

"The overall message, for the first time in a generation, is one of persistent and welcome progress."

Richard Horton, editor of the Britain-based medical journal The Lancet, on a report that the worldwide number of women dying each year from pregnancy and childbirth dropped to 342,900 in 2008 from 526,300 in 1980