QUEBEC CITY (AFP) – How can the world's woes be solved without a permanent seat on the UN Security Council for an African nation, France's President Nicolas Sarkozy opined Friday at a summit of French-speaking nations.

""The global financial crisis must be an opportunity to push aside our bad habits and refuse to facilitate them,"" Sarkozy said in a speech at the opening of the summit.
But, ""how can we imagine solving the huge problems of the world when our Security Council does not have a permanent member from Africa ... or from South America,"" he said.
The Security Council is composed of five permanent members -- the United States, China, Russia, France and Britain -- and 10 non-permanent members.
The 10 non-permanent members are elected by the General Assembly for two-year terms and not eligible for immediate re-election.
Some 30 leaders of French-speaking nations are attending the three-day summit of the Francophonie in Quebec City, the cradle of French civilization in the Americas, and the focus is dominated by the world's financial woes.
According to a draft final declaration seen by AFP, the francophone nations will commit to ""hold an international summit"" to come up with an ""urgent and coordinated"" response to the crisis.
Sarkozy said ""the crisis is an opportunity to reflect differently on economic growth, durable growth, green (environmentally friendly) growth, agricultural development around the world.""
""But first we must deal with the crisis at hand"" and it must be the focus of the Francophonie,"" he said.
""The world is confronted by the worst economic and financial crisis since the 1930s. We need to reflect on the stakes. How did we arrive here? ... Who is responsible? What happened? We have to diagnose the problem and draw lessons from it ... The world must change. The Francophonie must carry the torch for change in the world,"" he said.
For the French president, ""the Francophonie is not just a cultural grouping. It must be politically engaged,"" he said.