Secretary of State for Overseas Territories Yves Jego of France

Jego said he and Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith would meet and discuss preparations for a G20 summit to be held in Washington later this week aimed at easing the turmoil battering world markets and economies.

Jego is in Australia to boost relations and mark the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, in which 46,000 Australian troops died while fighting in France, Belgium and on other European battlefields.

France and Australia are working together to help calm the global financial crisis and push for reforms to prevent a recurrence, French state secretary for overseas affairs Yves Jego said Monday.

Jego is also in Australia to mark the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, in which 46,000 Australian troops died while fighting in France, Belgium and on other European battlefields.

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Mr Jego has met the French Polynesian president, Gaston Tong Sang, as well as delegates from New Caledonia in Paris, saying a limit of 14,000 euros a year as top-up will be paid to those retiring next year and in 2010.

Mr Jego has told reporters that the top-up will be lowered year by year and be eliminated altogether by 2029.

In the face of teachers resigning, Mr Jego says no cuts will be made before the end of the school year, which means that a 75 percent top-up to the French pension will remain.