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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 15-07-28
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[01] Creditor institution mission chiefs due in Athens on Wednesday
[01] Creditor institution mission chiefs due in Athens on Wednesday
ANA-MPA -- The heads of the four missions sent by Greece's creditor
institutions - the European Commission, the European Central Bank
(ECB), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Stability
Mechanism (ESM) - are due to arrive in Athens on Wednesday, finance
ministry sources said.
In the meantime, intensive negotiations began on Tuesday on the level of
technical teams and working groups, at the General Accounting Office.
The sources said that the two sides aimed to conclude an agreement as
soon as possible, with the technical teams expected to complete their
work by Friday and only have "follow-up" meetings at the weekend in
exceptional cases. They denied that there was any organisational problem
relating to the negotiations, saying that the talks are taking place
where the institution representatives are staying and, where necessary,
meetings are held at the Bank of Greece and the General Accounting Office.
Several working groups are involved in the negotiations, which will
cover fiscal indices, pensions, labour issues and the OECD toolkit.
The finance ministry sources repeated that press reports concerning a
further package of prior actions have no basis in either the July 12 Euro
Summit agreement or the letters sent by Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos
to the ESM, nor in talks to date with the institutions. The four heads
of missions arriving in Athens are the EU Commission's Declan Costello,
ECB's Rasmus Rüffer, ESM's Nicola Giammarioli and IMF's Delia Velculescu.
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