"There is no change in our deployment due to current tensions (in Cote d'Ivoire)," Jean-Francois Bureau, spokesman for the defense ministry, said at a news conference.

A group of unidentified gunmen attacked French and Cote d'Ivoire military posts in Gohitafla in central Cote d'Ivoire along the confidence zone dividing the rebel-held north from the government-run south, leaving two French soldiers wounded.

Some 4,000 French troops have been stationed in Cote d'Ivoire since last year helping to steer the West African country toward reconciliation after a failed coup bid in September 2002 against President Laurent Gbagbo.