Athens (AFP) - a critical audit of Greek finances to enable the countries of the eurozone debt-hit access a slice badly need funds of the EU and the IMF will end this week, the Greek Finance Minister said Monday.
"We conclude negotiations and I hope that they will be completed by Wednesday," Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said TV antenna.
Discussions with the auditors of the European Union, the Monetary Fund International and the European Central Bank - 'troika' of creditors to rescue Greece last year - were dragged into a fourth week without precedent and in Athens debt woes are causing friction in the concern and European capitals market.
The German Finance Ministry source said that the results would be presented "probably at the end of the week".
Chief decision maker of the Finance Ministers of the euro area, Jean-Claude Juncker Luxembourg Prime Minister, said Monday he was "rather optimistic" on the outcome of the Enigma of debt Greek, adding that European leaders would work on a solution by the end of June.
"We will try to resolve the Greek problem at the end of June", he said to journalists after a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris.
The European Heads of State are to hold a Summit 23-24 June in Brussels with the Greece should be the order of the day. It was also reported that will bring together Finance Ministers of the euro on the issue earlier in the month.
The Greece has warned that he need injection of EU loan to the IMF next 12 billion euros ($17 billion) to pay its bills or it will run more money in July.
But some of the peers of the eurozone Athens have expressed their reluctance to extend the fresh funds and the IMF has warned that he too could retain its share of the bailout of May 2010 EUR 110 billion if the country cannot find funding from other sources.
Prime Minister George Papandreou has struggled to build a more broad consensus on unpopular austerity measures insists are needed to save the country.
Papaconstantinou revealed Monday that the Prime Minister had offered to cooperate with the conservatives in opposition to "negotiate jointly" with the EU and the IMF and to agree on the appointment of experts to help reduce the deficit.
But the Conservatives, who were in power until 2009 and are blamed by many for the problem of debt in the first place, refused to work with the Government.
However, the talks with the Troika would conclude "favourable", Greece will receive the payment of the loan, the Minister said.
Despite the assurances of the Greece, over doubts about unpopular measures even more necessary to stabilize its finances have increased in recent weeks alongside fears that a kind of restructuring or rescheduling of debt will be required.
Thousands of people have occupied central place Syntagma in Athens since week last a peaceful demonstration against the policy of austerity.
With interest rates required by investors to lend to the Greece still painfully high, Athens will likely fail to return to the markets of the year next to finance debt maturities and may need a second rescue plan of up to EUR 60 billion.
The Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager Saturday warned that his country would refuse additional disbursement under the current rescue plan, as would the Germany and Finland, if the Greece can not meet the conditions of the IMF.
Monday, the first Slovak Minister Iveta Radicova said $-euro 350 billion the Greece debt should be restructured, a notion rejected by the Minister of Finance of Belgium, which calls for a binding joint eurozone instead to help Athens overcome its crisis.
The Greece has been pressed to deliver on a huge drive of privatization of services designed to bring in some 50 billion euros in the relief of the debt of the State but the country's powerful unions are engaged to oppose the initiative.
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