The Greek Prime Minister sought to sound a reassuring note in a statement to Bloomberg today, stressing that his government had no intention of taking unilateral actions and renege on its debts to the country’s creditors.
While he said that it was his duty to seek a more favourable agreement with the country’s lenders that would end the policies of austerity that have asphyxiated growth, he was keen to stress that Greece was not seeking a clash with its European partners.
“My duty to respect the Greek people's clear mandate for an end to austerity and for the return to a growth agenda does not, in any case, mean that Greece will not repay its debts to the European Central Bank and to the International Monetary Fund," said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Bloomberg in an e-mail statement on Saturday.
“My obligation to respect the clear mandate of the Greek people with respect to ending the policies of austerity and returning to a growth agenda, in no way entails that we will not fulfil our loan obligations to the ECB or the IMF,” Tsipras clarified.
The deliberations with our European partners on the debt have just started, he said and noted that "despite the fact that there are different approaches, I am certain that very soon we will reach a mutually beneficial deal with the euro area nations that funded most of the country’s financial rescue. No side wants a clash and it was never in our intentions to act unilaterally on the issue of the Greek debt.
"What we need is time to breathe and create our own medium-term recovery program, which amongst other things will incorporate the targets of primary balanced budgets and radical reforms to address the issues of tax evasion, corruption and clientelistic policies,” Tsipras said. "I am absolutely confident that we will soon manage to reach a mutually beneficial agreement, both for Greece and for Europe as a whole.”
Source: AMNA
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