Greece has made "enormous strides" at reaching a deal with its international lenders to avert bankruptcy, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said.
"It is now up to the institutions to do their bit. We have met them three quarters of the way, they need to meet us one quarter of the way," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
Varoufakis also said it would be "catastrophic" if Greece left the euro, predicting it would be would be "the beginning of the end of the common currency project".
He said in the last four months Athens managed to pay public sector salaries, pensions and dues to the IMF by extracting 14% of national output, doing "remarkably well" for an economy that doesn't have access to money markets.
"At some point we will not be able to do it and at some point we are going obviously to have to make this choice that no minister of finance should ever have to make," Varoufakis said.
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