PARIS (Reuters) - France's military said on Thursday it had transported munitions to the Chadian government army, which repelled a rebel attack on the capital N'Djamena this month.
French media had reported that French forces flew tankshells from Libya to supply Chadian government tanks defendingthe presidential palace against a February 2-3 rebel assault.
"In the framework of the cooperation agreement it has withChad, French forces participated in the transfer of munitionsto the Chadian government army," Defence Ministry spokesmanLaurent Teisseire told reporters.
(Reporting by Brian Rohan; writing by Daniel Flynn; editingby Pascal Fletcher)
