Paris has refused to comment directly on a report accusing France of playing an active role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide.
However a Defence Ministry spokesman referred reporters to the government's position as set out in a statement from February 2007.
That original statement declared that the Rwandan inquiry had no independence or impartiality because its stated remit was to gather evidence of the involvement of the French state in the Rwandan genocide.
The report by the Rwandan government named French political and military officials it says should be prosecuted.
The damning report accused a raft of top French politicians of involvement in the massacres, threatening to further mar relations between the two countries, which severed diplomatic ties in November 2006.
A justice ministry statement said that French forces directly assassinated Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis and that French forces committed several rapes on Tutsi survivors.
The 500-page report alleged that France was aware of preparations for the genocide, contributed to planning the massacres and actively took part in the killing.
It named former French prime minister Edouard Balladur, former foreign minister Alain Juppe and then-president Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996, among 13 French politicians accused of playing a role in the massacres.
Dominique de Villepin, who was then Mr Juppe's top aide and later became prime minister, was also among those listed in the Rwandan report.
The report names 20 military officials as being responsible.
