ATHENS The Greek interior minister said on Sunday that his country has no money to repay what it owes the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June.
“The repayments to the IMF in June amounted to 1,600 million euros. There will be, and otherwise there is no money to do it,” said Minister Nikos Voutsis the Mega channel.
Soon after, in statements the BBC, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said with a vague formulation. “So far we’ve managed very well to meet our debts, but at a certain point, you can not”
is the first time that the Greek government warned of this risk in the context of negotiations with international creditors to unlock a final tranche of financial assistance of 7,200 million euros.
At the moment, not He could contact any spokesman for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for comment statements Voutsis.
In particular, Greece has to make four payments to the IMF in June, the first of them, about 300 million euros, the 5th.
According to connoisseurs of Greek debt questioned, the state has funds to meet this payment and salaries and pensions to 12, the second day of the payment to the Fund.
The government in Athens would then have a deadline of June 12 to reach an agreement with creditors, the EU and the IMF, which expects to achieve Tsipras.
The Voutsis himself acknowledged this Sunday it has “cautious optimism that there will be a solid agreement.”
The official position of the coalition government, dominated by the radical left, is that if you have to choose and pay salaries and pensions will ‘default . ‘on payments to creditors
So said Varoufakis this week in an interview with New York Times : “In the coming weeks I will not pay the IMF and the same time to stop paying pensions and salaries “.
According to Mega, whose information was not confirmed nor denied, Tsipras called Saturday the US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, asking him to support to the IMF idea of making the four payments June a coup, later this month.
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