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France's Sarkozy meets Dalai Lama as China fumes
AFP - 2 hours 22 minutes ago
GDANSK, Poland (AFP) - - French President Nicolas Sarkozy met the Dalai Lama Saturday at a gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in the Polish city of Gdansk, shrugging off Chinese anger, an Elysee spokesman said.
"One must approach this calmly," Sarkozy said minutes prior to the meeting. "The world needs an open China that participates in global governance. China needs a powerful Europe that gives work to Chinese enterprise."
Sarkozy is the first European head of state to meet the Dalai Lama while holding the European Union's rotating presidency.
"I never hesitated. Every time I spoke about the subject I said I would meet the Dalai Lama before the end of 2008," Sarkozy said.
The French leader's decision to engage with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader has so far seen Beijing retaliate by scrapping a China-EU summit in France and warning bilateral China-France trade deals could suffer.
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