PARIS, Oct 30 (AFP) - French parliamentarians presented an all-party petition to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Wednesday calling on China to start negotiations with the Nobel peace prize-winner on the future of Tibet, which they called an "occupied territory."

The petition, signed by 329 deputies and senators, more than a third of the two houses of parliament, spoke of China's "invasion and occupation of Tibet" and "systematic violation of fundamental human rights" there, and expressed support for the Dalai Lama's campaign and his efforts "for the self-determination of the Tibetan people."

The Dalai Lama, on the third and final day of a private visit to France, was met at the National Assembly by a parliamentary committee on Tibetan problems and a Senate friendship group, but did not enter the debating chamber and did not meet Speaker Philippe Seguin, the third person in the French state hierarchy.

The petition called on China and the Tibetan government in exile "to open negotiations to resolve the China-Tibet problem through dialogue'" Signatories said the petition would be sent to the Beijing government.

Earlier Wednesday the Dalai Lama met with Paris mayor Jean Tiberi, a close aide of President Jacques Chirac, after China warned France against official contacts with the Tibetan leader.

The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner was to appear on a TV talk show Wednesday evening.

Aides to Tiberi said the mayor and the Dalai Lama, had a half-hour of talks and that the meeting was "philosophical and spiritual." Tiberi paid tribute to the Buddhist leader's advocacy of "tolerance and peace," the aides said.

China warned on Tuesday that diplomatic relations could be affected if France gave any official recognition to the Dalai Lama's trip.

The foreign ministry has been at pains to stress the trip is purely "pastoral." The Dalai Lama was not invited to see either President Jacques Chirac or Premier Alain Juppe.

On Tuesday however he was paid a "strictly private" visit by Justice Minister Jacques Toubon, second in the French government hierarchy, in a meeting seen as intended to limit the impression France is kow-towing to China.

Also, Wednesday's meeting with Tiberi was not included in the Buddhist leader's schedule for the trip, which came after he spent three days in Strasbourg last week.

On Tuesday night the 61-year-old held a public meeting for 4,000 people at a sports stadium to the west of the French capital, on the subject of the link between spirituality and everyday life.

During the day Wednesday he also met Socialist Party head Lionel Jospin. He was to appear on the talk show "La Marche du Siecle" on state-run France 3 television late Wednesday.

Paris is at pains not to anger Beijing ahead of a visit by President Chirac there next May. Beijing has warned France against any official contact with the Dalai Lama while the Tibetan spiritual leader is in France.

"We hope that the French authorities will respect the agreement between us," said the Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday. "Otherwise, our relations will be affected."

The Dalai Lama has repeatedly attacked China during the visit. In a newspaper interview he condemned China's "cultural genocide" in his homeland, while he also alleged that Beijing was distorting his views.

Beijing, which has ruled Tibet since 1950, condemned a visit by the Dalai Lama to the European parliament in Strasbourg last week as "gross interference" in its internal affairs.

The Dalai Lama's visit comes at a delicate time for Paris as it seeks to build bridges with Beijing, with Chirac preparing his first official visit to China as president.

Chirac's visit is to cement relations with China that began improving only in 1994 following a row two years earlier after France sold fighter planes to Taiwan.

That crisis deepened further in November 1993 when the late French president Francois Mitterrand met the Dalai Lama at the Elysee Palace. Chirac, who was then mayor of Paris, also welcomed him at city hall.

In 1994 Mitterrand's wife Danielle, who runs the human rights group France-Libertes, met the Dalai Lama.

Since then France has welcomed Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Prime Minister Li Peng.

Chinese Premier Li said in Beijing on Monday that he had high hopes for Chirac's visit next May "in the economic and political spheres," and that China appreciated Chirac's advocacy of "dialogue without confrontation."