Quotable quotes from Chinese president's tour in U.S.

BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao was in the United States to attend a series of UN meetings and the Group of 20 (G20) Summit while meeting foreign leaders on the sidelines.

Hu addressed on Friday the G20 economic summit in Pittsburgh, the United States.

The following are some notable quotes made during the summit:

"A primary task at present is to counter the international financial crisis and promote a healthy world economic recovery." -- Chinese President Hu Jintao

"Major reserve currency issuing countries should take into account and balance the implications of their monetary policies for both their own economies and the world." -- Hu

"We should follow through on the timetable and the roadmap agreed upon at the London summit, increase the representation and voice of developing countries and push for substantive progress inthe reform." -- Hu

"We should move forward the reform of the international financial supervisory and regulatory regime." -- Hu

"The root cause, however, is the yawning development gap between the North and the South." -- Hu

"I am confident that with the concerted efforts of the entire international community, we will prevail over this international financial crisis and usher in a more prosperous future for the world economy." -- Hu

"The economic recovery efforts taken by the Group of 20 members have saved the world economy from the brink of collapse." -- U.S. President Barack Obama

"Our coordinated stimulus plans played an indispensable role in averting catastrophe. Now, we must make sure that when growth returns, jobs do, too. That's why we will continue our stimulus efforts until our people are back to work, and phase them out when our recovery is strong." -- Obama

"To make our institutions reflect the reality of our times, we will shift more responsibility to emerging economies within the International Monetary Fund, and give them a greater voice." -- Obama

"When we find that diplomacy does not work (to solve the Iran nuclear issue), we will be in a much stronger position to, for example, apply sanctions that have bite." -- Obama