A day after Greece seemed to take a path of confrontation with creditors, the new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras the radical left has toned down the rhetoric by promising to pay the debt and not take unilateral action.
The Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, who had a tense meeting with the leader of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem in Athens on Friday, has planned a trip to Paris, London and Rome to meet with their counterparts.
Tsipras said he never planned to act unilaterally and expressed certainty that Greece and the creditors reach agreement.
He also promised to pay the debt to the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, together with the European Commission forming the “troika” of creditors.
On the other hand, US Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by telephone on Friday with his Greek counterpart, Nikos Kotzias to congratulate him on his appointment and underline ” US interest in maintaining close bilateral cooperation with Greece, “said a senior State Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said he also discussed the situation in western Ukraine and the fight against terrorist threats in the region.
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