After speculation in recent days about a possible request for deferral to the IMF, which would come to Greece to bankruptcy, Finance Minister, Yanis Varufakis, made clear yesterday that the payment of 450 million euros be made, as planned, on Thursday.
“Greece intends to fulfill all its obligations to its creditors forever,” Varufakis said in New York after meeting with IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde.
According to the news agency EFE, thereby Varufakis wanted to put an end to the uncertainty generated by the ambiguities fed on this issue by the government of SYRIZA itself.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, contributed to this debate by warning in a letter to its partners in the eurozone if Greece did not get help soon, should choose to meet their obligations and pay salaries and pensions letter.
In total Greece must pay in April 1700 million in salaries and pensions, of which half has already disbursed on April 1, and the remaining 850 million to be paid on the 15th.
On Wednesday The State also faces an auction of Treasury Bills for six months to be replaced 1,400 million euros maturing on the 14th.
If the last auction of Arts and problems arose because the Treasury was placing increasingly high interest rates, now the problem that the European Central Bank (ECB) ordered the Greek financial institutions not buy bonds Hellenes adds
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In their statements, and Lagarde agreed Varufakis should “improve efficiency” of negotiations, whose success depends on the disbursement of 7,200 million euros of outstanding rescue.
Meanwhile, the government spokesman, Gavriil Sakelaridis, left today glimpse, told the television station Mega, a compromise in the debate on pensions-the troika demands clause zero deficit for the coffers of the Social Security- and even rejected the low benefits, he said that could prohibit certain ‘pensions Advance extravagant. ”
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