PYONGYANG -- "If the United States adopts a correct posture and comes to the third DPRK-U.S. summit with a certain methodology that can be shared with us, we can think of holding one more (round of) talks."

"It is necessary for both sides not to table their unilateral demands but find out a constructive solution to meet each other's interests," Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made the remarks in his policy speech marking the First Session of the country's 14th Supreme People's Assembly.

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JAKARTA -- "As global economy now encounters drastic downturn, the world now needs a new stimulus. The BRI is the correct concept as it complies with the needs of both developed and developing countries."

China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the world's most important initiatives in the 21st Century fit to galvanize the stagnant world economy, Chairman of the Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board Thomas Lembong said in an interview with Xinhua.

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ROME -- "The problem for most farmers who would be affected by these measures is that they have little say in how it will play out."

"The diplomats have to resolve these kinds of problems. All a farmer can do is to put his head down, keep working, and try to survive," Lorenzo Bazzana, an economist with Italy's main agricultural trade union Coldiretti, told Xinhua, referring to the possible extra tariffs on European goods by the U.S. government.

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ANKARA -- "It is my most important wish that Sudan will survive this process on the basis of national reconciliation and peace."

The situation should be overcome peacefully through "national conciliation," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters at a joint press conference with visiting president of Burkina Faso. Enditem

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