On this plan he called for a reform of the IMF and the World Bank

"I will fight in Pittsburgh to have sanctions against tax havens which will not respect the rules of transparency", stated yesterday Nicolas Sarkozy in the interview broadcast by TF1 and France 2, New York on the eve of the G20 Summit. He added that he hoped that these sanctions will be put in place "in the first quarter of 2010."Very determined and apparently confident in the success of this meeting, the head of State insisted on the fact that he expected "of concrete results."He assured that, since the Summit in London on April 2, "tax havens, banking secrecy, it's over."He showed the same energy to criticize banking bonuses, an "absolutely frightening practice."He explained that he wanted to the amount of the bonus "is capped by function, for example, a percentage of sales, amount of own funds banks", adding that discussions were ongoing between the members of the g-20 countries. Asked about the reluctance of the United States on this issue, Nicolas Sarkozy replied: "the President Obama is a brave man who understood the issues but (...)". "it is in advance from his country."

Counsel for multilateralism

Earlier in the afternoon, at the rostrum of the United Nations, the head of the French State was the advocate of multilateralism, calling for the creation of a "new world where the madness of yesterday is more possible." "In politics, the economy, the environment, the need for a new world governance arises".He sent a strong plea to widen the circle of permanent members and non-permanent UN Security Council. By integrating an African country, the Brazil, the India or the Japan and the Germany. A preliminary reform is necessary before the end of the year, in his eyes.

On the eve of the opening of the G20 Summit, French President found that the G8 has lived. Only the g-20 has had "the force, the authority and legitimacy" to hear of the problems of the crisis. On this plan, he called for a reform of the IMF and the World Bank. "The voting rights must there be more fairly distributed between the countries." Their mission should be redefined. Their role should be to ensure the major balances economic, monetary, social world. . This new world would be a world without tax havens, a world where capitalism will be refondé and where you will pay the real price risk and scarcity, a world where there more a unimonétaire system based on the one dollar, a more environmentally friendly world of the environment.

Duty of sharing

On this last point, Nicolas Sarkozy has called for the creation of a world environment organization for possible decisions to be taken at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December. The day before, seeing the negotiations deadlocked, Nicolas Sarkozy proposed a Summit of the main polluters in mid-November. Yesterday, the head of State stressed the duty of sharing of technologies to help poor countries cope with climate change. To fund this assistance, he raised the possibility of "taxing excessive speculation gains and annuities.

This forum of the United Nations, Nicolas Sarkozy has also put forward the work of the Stiglitz commission on the measurement of economic and social performance. Its recommendations should be implemented as quickly as possible at the international level, he said. Many of these topics will be discussed today and tomorrow in Pittsburgh, where, according to the head of the French State, "nothing would be worse than a poor compromise."