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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam China, France join forces for world monetary reform AFP - Saturday, November 6 Send IM Story Print NICE, France (AFP) - – China and France have joined forces to push for reform of the global monetary system when France takes the helm of the G20 economic grouping next week. They reached a "true convergence of views" on France's reform plans in talks between President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in the Mediterranean city of Nice, a senior French presidential adviser said Friday. Sarkozy later said he also broached the sensitive topic of human rights, following complaints by activists that he was avoiding the subject so as not to offend Hu given the high economic and diplomatic stakes of the visit. Speaking to reporters as he arrived at a chic restaurant near the Nice seafront for a dinner with Hu, Sarkozy said the two discussed "all subjects... without taboos." Pressed on whether he had brought up the question of human rights, Sarkozy replied: "Certainly. President Hu Jintao is someone you can talk with." Activists and political opponents had criticised Sarkozy for not speaking up in favour of the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last month in a move that enraged Beijing. Having overseen billions of dollars-worth of Franco-Chinese trade deals, Sarkozy was seeking China's backing for his plans for financial reform when he takes over the G20 presidency at a summit in South Korea next week. "There is a true convergence of views between China and France on the aims to be achieved and the route and means necessary to achieve this reform," a presidential adviser told reporters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official added the two leaders also agreed to hold a gathering of monetary experts in China at an unspecified date, "probably in the spring" of 2011. Hu said on Thursday that he supported Sarkozy in his G20 plans, but few concrete details have been announced. Sarkozy has previously called for measures to end volatility in exchange rates and commodities prices. Sarkozy told journalists that they discussed the "really necessary reforms of the international monetary system and regulation of commodities prices to try to have a world that is more balanced, more stable." Asked by a journalist whether he is optimistic about the chances of success, Sarkozy said: "Optimistic? That's really difficult because we are confronted with subjects that are very, very complex. "But the ambition of France is that everyone agrees to sit around a table to lay the groundwork for a new system that guarantees the stability of the world." France and China have had tense ties in recent years, notably over French meetings with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, but they maintain important economic ties and relations have warmed since 2009. In Paris on Friday morning, around 20 activists calling for Liu's release approached Hu as he visited the Arc de Triomphe. Police dispersed them and press freedom group Reporters Without Borders said six demonstrators were arrested. "The arrests reflect the French government's determination to suppress any reference to human rights in China in order not to offend President Hu," the group said in a statement. In Nice, a local shopkeeper who asked not to be named told AFP she was arrested for displaying a Tibetan flag as Hu was arriving and later released. Police said they also ordered two other such flags to be taken down from a balcony in the town. Chinese officials had said that Liu's fate is not up for discussion during the French visit. Human rights group Amnesty International said it was also planning a protest on Saturday morning at an industrial complex near Nice where Hu is scheduled to visit a factory before ending his visit to France. The Nice talks come a day after the two leaders oversaw the signing of 20 billion dollars (14 billion euros) of aviation and energy contracts between French and Chinese companies. A new round of 15 contracts was signed Friday in areas ranging from power to wine, including a 1.5-billion-dollar deal between telecommunications group Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom. French nuclear giant Areva signed a contract to supply 3.5 billion dollars' worth of uranium to Chinese power firm CNGPC. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde called for "a sustained economic relationship founded on friendship and demand." She said she was "very satisfied" with Hu's visit which she described as "a very fine success in terms of results." Sarkozy and Hu scheduled no joint news conference, an exceptional departure from state visit procedures that has been criticised by campaigners who want Hu to be pressed on the issue of human rights. Hu heads to Portugal on Saturday. 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