BEIJING (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew into Beijing on a fence-mending mission on Friday but still insisted on bringing up the tricky subject of human rights with Chinese leaders, a senior government official said on Friday.
Sarkozy, whose nation holds the rotating European Union presidency, handed two lists of jailed dissidents to Chinese President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao during meetings which ran for 40 minutes, the French official said.
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