IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Wang Wenbin
    Wang Wenbin “China is not the creator of or a party to the Ukraine Crisis. We have been on the side of peace and dialogue and committed to promoting peace talks. We actively support putting in place a balanced, effective and sustainable European security architecture. Our fair and objective position and constructive role have been widely recognized. 'Let the person who tied the bell on the tiger untie it,' to quote a Chinese saying. Our message to the US: stop shifting the blame on China; do not try to drive a wedge between China and Europe; and it is time to stop fueling the flame and start making real contribution to finding a political solution to the Ukraine crisis.” 7 hours ago
  • Korean Central News Agency
    Korean Central News Agency “On May 17, the North Korean Missile General Bureau conducted a test launch of a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a new navigation system of autonomous guidance. The test launch confirmed the accuracy and reliability of the system. The launch was carried out as part of the regular activities of the North Korean Missile General Bureau and subordinate defense research institutes for the active development of weapons technology.” 7 hours ago
  • Yang Moo-jin
    Yang Moo-jin “It is part of North Korea's propaganda approach to develop a voice in global affairs. Kim's statement comes amid Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping holding talks in Beijing, the West pressuring North Korea and Russia with sanctions and South Korea planning to stage Ulchi Freedom Shiled, a joint annual military drill with the U.S. in August. It may be true that North Korea is honing existing weapons to attack Seoul, but we cannot rule out the possibility of the country pulling weapons from its stocks and shipping them to Russia after further testing and deploying.” 7 hours ago
  • Park Won-gon
    Park Won-gon “Kim's [Kim Yo-jong syster of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un] statement suggests that North Korea is concerned about international sanctions. I believe sanctions are still an effective tool. North Korea fears that if it admits its arms dealings with Russia, it may turn its European allies into enemies.” 7 hours ago
  • Kim Yo-jong
    Kim Yo-jong “We have no intention to export our military technical capabilities to any country or open them to the public. Our tactical weapons, including multiple rocket launchers and missiles, will be used to prevent Seoul from inventing any idle thinking.” 7 hours ago
  • Frank Kendall
    Frank Kendall “China has fielded a number of space capabilities designed to target our forces. And we're not going to be able operate in the Western Pacific successfully unless we can defeat those. China had tripled its network of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellites since 2018.” 7 hours ago
  • Ants Kiviselg
    Ants Kiviselg “The Russian Armed Forces are advancing on the recently opened Kharkiv front, but their pace is slowing down. This and the nature of their behaviour rather indicate a desire to create a buffer zone. Russian troops have attacked and destroyed important bridges in the area of Vovchansk, which creates a natural barrier between Ukrainian and Russian forces. This is more an indication of the intention of Russian forces to build a defensive line than to create a bridgehead for an advance on Kharkiv.” 17 hours ago
  • Vladimir Putin
    Vladimir Putin “Russia is ready and able to continuously power the Chinese economy, businesses, cities and towns with affordable and environmentally clean energy.” 17 hours ago
  • Alexey Muraviev
    Alexey Muraviev “There are limits to the two nations' ties, despite their insistence that it is limitless. The limits are that the two countries don't have a formal alliance agreement. To me, that's very clearly a sign that there are limitations to what seems to be a limitless relationship. Neither side is prepared to unconditionally commit to support each other on issues like Ukraine.” 17 hours ago
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“Out of 400,000 drivers, we estimate that 30% do not have the green pass. On top of that, we fear for the foreign workers, many of whom have been vaccinated with Sputnik or other vaccines not approved by the European or Italian medicines agencies. We therefore foresee a risk of severe blockage in the sector.”

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Director general of Confetra, the transport and logistics federation
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“The United States is buying another half a billion doses of Pfizer to donate to low- and middle-income countries around the world. We're not going to solve this crisis with half measures or middle-of-the-road ambitions. We need to go big. And we need to do our part - governments, the private sector, civil society leaders, philanthropists.”

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President of the United States
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“In this hyper-partisan environment, for him [Joe Biden] to put down executive orders requiring vaccines without getting any kind of buy in will for sure galvanize his critics. The pendulum could swing back.”

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Republican strategist in Minnesota
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“What makes it incredibly more frustrating is we have the tools to combat COVID-19, and a distinct minority of Americans supported by a distinct minority of elected officials are keeping us from turning the corner. I'm announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employ over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated or show a negative test at least once a week.”

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President of the United States
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“We will be among the first in the world to have the opportunity to change the content of the substance together with partners from China and the UAE, and to be among the first in the world to share the benefits of scientific discoveries with the people and to increase the efficiency and quality of vaccines.”

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Serbian president
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“The global anti-vax movement is evolving and melding with a much darker, a much more violent, strain of anti-government sentiment. You're starting to see that real dark underbelly, and I think that's what you're seeing with Trudeau. He has come out in favour obviously of vaccines, of mandatory vaccines, of talking about vaccine passports, and this seems to have tapped into that anger.”

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History professor at King’s University College and a specialist on conspiracy theories and extremism
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“We are in a new 'arms' race - to get vaccines into people as quickly as possible - but this is an arms race where the West have a stranglehold on the vaccine supplies.”

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Former Prime Minister of the UK and United Nations special envoy
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“Last week, there was an 11 percent increase in the number of deaths in the region - one reliable projection is expecting 236,000 deaths in Europe, by December 1. In the past six weeks, it [vaccination uptake] has fallen by 14 percent, influenced by a lack of access to vaccines in some countries and a lack of vaccine acceptance in others. Vaccine scepticism and science denial is holding us back from stabilising this crisis. It serves no purpose, and is good for no one.”

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WHO’s regional director for Europe
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“I believe that mandating vaccines for children to appear in school is a good idea. We've done this for decades and decades, requiring polio, measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis vaccinations.”

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Top US infectious disease expert
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“Over 90 per cent of the patients in intensive care units have not been vaccinated. Workers who do not comply with restrictions can be legally suspended. Employers do have the right to know if workers are vaccinated or tested.”

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Greek Minister for Health
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“Vaccine rejection doesn't happen in a vacuum. It's easier to dismiss hesitancy and conspiracies as unhinged behaviour; it makes us feel less unnerved by displays of unreason from those who we think are, or should be, rational people. Sure, among vaccine-hesitant people are those who are simply stubborn, misanthropic or selfish. But, just as the pandemic exploited the weaknesses of our economic and public health systems, vaccine hesitancy has exposed the weaknesses of states' bond with their citizens. There are no easy answers for how to deal with those who repeat conspiracy theories and falsehoods, but scrutinising the systems that lost their trust is perhaps a good place to start.”

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Guardian columnist and features writer
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“We believe sooner or later you will need a booster for durability. We are evaluating this on a day-by-day, week-by-week, month-by-month basis, looking at any of a number of studies - both international and domestic studies. We are preparing for the eventuality of doing that.”

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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
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“We cannot decide on the supply of vaccines on our own because we have relied on a few foreign pharmaceutical companies, but we will make the most use of the vaccines we have secured, and advance the timing of achieving our goal. The unstable supply of vaccines is a serious problem worldwide. We will need to speed up domestic vaccine development and make every effort to become a global vaccine production hub.”

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President of South Korea
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“Only by adhering to multilateralism, unity and cooperation can we defeat the pandemic. China will continue to support B&H citizens in the fight against the pandemic and will provide assistance in its capabilities. We wish you a quick victory over the pandemic, peace and health.”

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Deputy Ambassador of China to Bosnia and Herzegovina
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“This is the realization of the Agreement that was concluded at the end of July directly with the manufacturer Sinopharm. This Agreement has a special significance for the Federation of B&H and on that behalf, I would like to thank China and Sinopharm. Also, I would congratulate the FB&H Institute for Public Health.”

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Deputy Prime Minister of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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“The fact that we are vaccinating healthy adults with a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines is a short-sighted way of thinking. With the emergence of new variants, if we continue to leave the majority of the world unvaccinated, we will most definitely need adjusted vaccines in the future.”

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Infectious diseases medical adviser to Medecins Sans Frontieres' access campaign
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“I understand the concern of all governments to protect their people from the Delta variant. But we cannot accept countries that have already used most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it. We need an urgent reversal from the majority of vaccines going to high-income countries to the majority going to low-income countries.”

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Director-General of the World Health Organization
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“Taiwan's experiences with COVID-19 vaccines this year offer a case study in the geopolitics of vaccine diplomacy. Taipei has served as facilitator and receiver, and will likely soon serve as a donor. It has navigated contract disputes and experienced wavering allies, and has seen its relationships with other countries solidify. With a domestic vaccine ready, Taiwan is set to enter into the next stage of vaccine diplomacy.”

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Esearch fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
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“As long as this virus is out there anywhere, replicating, we're going to see more variants, and those variants are going to come back and bite us as we're already experiencing with Delta. As we are pursuing every effort to get every American vaccinated, we are also engaged in the world.”

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U.S. Secretary of State
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