	french ministerial meeting held on cgct sale finance minister edouard balladur industry minister alain madelin and telecommunications minister gerard longuet met for more than an hour today to discuss the imminent sale of the french telephone switching group cie generale de constructions telephoniques a spokesman for longuet said no decision was announced as a result of the meeting and the french government has given itself until the end of next month to choose between the candidates the sale of cgct which controls pct of france s telephone market has been priced at mln francs and three international consortia are battling for the right to buy it west germany s siemens ag sieg f has teamed up with the french group jeumont schneider in opposition to a bid from the u s group att t n and the dutch philips telecommunications bv pglo as in association with the french telecommunications firm sat societe anonyme de telecommunications a third bid has been lodged by sweden s ab lm ericsson eric st allied with french defence electronics group matra matr pa and bouygues sa bouy pa reuter 
