Paris city hall made Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama an honorary citizen heightening the tensions between France and China in the build up to the Beijing Olympics.Tne motion to honour the Dalai Lama was backed by Paris’s socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe but was not supported by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right party or communist councillors.
Relations between France and China have suffered in the wake of pro-Tibetan protests that disrupted the passage of the Olympic flame through Paris in April.
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