Germany sees IMF and EU remain involved in Greece (Reuters)

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany expected of the European Union and the Monetary Fund International remain jointly involved in any program of continued assistance to the responsible Greece of debt, a spokesman for the Ministry of finance said Wednesday. The comments contradicted an earlier report in the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which had said that it seems certain that the IMF would not contribute its share of the next tranche of assistance under the Greece international rescue plan.

"It is a joint program which specifies, the IMF and participated in the (EU) Commission," Martin Kotthaus said at a regular press conference.

"It has been designed jointly." It will be evaluated jointly, and I suppose also that it can only be pursued jointly, including when it comes to the question of future instalments payments. ?

The inspectors of the "troika" of EU inspectors team, the IMF and the European Central Bank are in Athens to decide to release a tranche of 12 billion euros ($17 billion) the month next to keep afloat Greece.

In part due to requirements of the IMF, discussions on a new package that would meet the needs of the Greece up to 2014 are also underway, and countries are eager to see what measures Athens will take to regain credibility, for example with its privatization.

"Is not clear how these announcements of privatization and plans can be executed in concrete terms, physically, and understandable so that all other delays and others can be avoided," said the Germany Kotthaus.

He added that private creditors should participate in any solution to the woes of the debt of the Greece and not to leave all the burden for Governments to shoulder.

He said "should the taxpayer must be willing to give the Greece more space to breathe, then it is natural that private creditors should participate in such a project,".

"I can't say what specifically like at the moment, because we always await the report of the troika," Kotthaus said, adding that he did not wait for the reports before the Friday evening or perhaps even on Saturday or Sunday.

(Reported by Christiaan Hetzner, Brian Rohan;) (Editing by Ruth Pitchford)

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