France has chosen to be an open team player, working closely with our partners to build together a consensus on these difficult subjects. In recent weeks, Nicolas Sarkozy has spent a great deal of time
consulting G20 partner Heads of State and Government and other stakeholders. The President has also asked a number of G20 leaders to work with the French Presidency to drive its priorities forward:
■ German Chancellor Angela Merkel will chair a working group on the reform of the international monetary system.
■ Chinese President Hu Jintao has agreed for a high-level seminar on currencies to be held in China in March 2011.
■ Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has agreed to focus on all the dysfunctions on the commodity
markets.
■ UK Prime Minister David Cameron will work on the reform of global governance.
■ France has also decided to bring on board non-G20 countries under its presidency. Nicolas Sarkozy hence attended the Francophonie Summit in Montreux (Switzerland) in October 2010 and the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on 30 January 2011.
■ France has also chosen to involve many civil society players in its presidency of the G20 and G8: NGOs, experts, economists, researchers, French and international unions, business, and prominent figures with whom the President has had many meetings.
