liar --French Embassador

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"对于巴黎市政厅悬挂支持「藏独」旗帜、巴黎市长提议授予达赖「荣誉市民」等事，苏和表示，巴黎市政厅的行为或者巴黎市长的提议都不代表法国政府立场。"
Don't know what can represent French government? not a government officer at government place, maybe populace.........

coolioo

I think what this embassador means is that the behavior of the city mayer does not represent the government on the federal level, which makes a lot of sense to me.  

sinosydneysider

agree with #2.
Local government only represents local policy, and has nothing to do with national policy which is governed by federal administration.

hence, what the ambassador said is true.