PARIS, July 15 (Xinhua) -- French President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday reaffirmed that France would not send troops to Iraq under current situation.

　　Chirac denied the possibility of France's sending troops to Iraq during a working lunch with visiting Czech President Vaclav Klaus , said Chirac's spokeswoman Catherine Colonna.

　　"As Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin explained last week, a French military participation cannot be considered within the current framework," said Colonna.

　　In an interview with French daily Le Figaro last week, de Villepin said France would not send any troops to Iraq unless it was within a framework of the United Nations peacekeeping mission.

　　When asked "under what conditions will France send soldiers to Iraq," de Villepin answered: "It will be OK (for France) when the political transition in Iraq is placed under the UN.

　　"Any participation will be eventually envisioned only within the framework of a peace force of the UN, based on a detailed mandate of the UN Security Council, and therefore enjoying the support of the entire international community," he said.

　　De Villepin's words came after United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said he had asked France and Germany to send troops to Iraq.

　　The hard-pressed occupation force in Iraq consists primarily of U.S. and British troops, who have been stricken in recent weeks by a series of fatal attacks by armed militants still loyal to toppled president Saddam Hussein.

　　Paris led opposition to the Washington-led war on Iraq, enraging the Americans and triggering a major crisis in trans-Atlantic relations. End