INTRODUCTION FROM MEHMET ALI BIRAND
Journalist and writer, CNN Türk
FU YING
Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
"For the developed countries, there is concern that the newly emerging countries may not observe the original rules or may not be ready to accept existing structures. At the same time, the emerging countries are concerned that those developed countries may not accept them, or may impose on them."
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KEMAL DERVIS
Vice President, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution
"the future of Turkey depends on its ability to thrive with this diversity. It must not try to merge it or overcome it, but to actually make a strength of it. If you believe that globalisation is going to continue and that global economic and cultural forces are going to be very strong worldwide, taking advantage of these different dimensions is going to be a very good thing."
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KANWAL SIBAL
Former Foreign Secretary of India
"La phase unipolaire est terminée, et en ce qui concerne la multipolarité, il existe une dichotomie dans l'attitude de certains pays s'opposant à la domination des Etats-Unis. Ils souhaitent une multipolarité à l'échelle mondiale, mais souhaiteraient l'unipolarité dans leurs propres régions."
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STUART EIZENSTAT
Partner, Covington & Burling LLP
"We are really at a historic watershed. The question is; will the greater influence that developing countries rightly demand, come along with the capacity to create consensus between developed and developing countries."
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