Sarkozy defends 'European values' on Tibet
BRUSSELS (AFP) - - French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- whose ties with China were strained by his recent meeting with the Dalai Lama -- said on Friday that he would find ways to talk to Beijing without renouncing "European values".
Sarkozy told journalists he aimed to find "the means to have a calm dialogue with China," but "not at the price of renouncing our own European values."
"Having good or bad relations with a partner is not about letting oneself being told what to do," Sarkozy said at the end of a two-day EU summit he hosted in Brussels.
Beijing scrapped an EU-China due to be held at the beginning of the month after Sarkozy lined up talks with the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, northern Poland.
BRUSSELS (AFP) - - French President Nicolas Sarkozy -- whose ties with China were strained by his recent meeting with the Dalai Lama -- said on Friday that he would find ways to talk to Beijing without renouncing "European values".
Sarkozy told journalists he aimed to find "the means to have a calm dialogue with China," but "not at the price of renouncing our own European values."
"Having good or bad relations with a partner is not about letting oneself being told what to do," Sarkozy said at the end of a two-day EU summit he hosted in Brussels.
Beijing scrapped an EU-China due to be held at the beginning of the month after Sarkozy lined up talks with the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, northern Poland.
