YUNANİSTAN HABERLERİ
Yunanistan'da kimin ne kadar riski var?
Başka bir kayanağa göre ise görüşmelere telefonla devam edilecek. Başka bir kaynağa göre görüşmeler
telefon görüşmeleri ile sürdürülecek. Başbakan Lukas Papadimos ve
Başbakan Yardımcısı ve Maliye Bakanı Evangelos Venizelos, IIF yöneticisi
direktörü Charles Dallara ile dün akşam 4 saat süren bir görüşme yapmıştı.
Görüşme sonrası Venizelos müzakerelerin bugün de devam edeceğini söylemişti.
Bir hükümet yetkilisi ise kesilen görüşmelerin yeniden başlaması için yeni bir
tarihin belirlenmediğini kaydetti. Yunanistan'ın borcunu 100 milyar euro
kadar azaltacak olan tahvil takası görüşmelerinde yeni tahvillerin faiz
oranları üzerinde tartışmalar sürüyordu.
Bir yetkili görüşmelerin Almanya ve IMF'nin yeni tahvillerin faiz
oranının yüzde 3'ün altında olması talebi sebebiyle kesildiğini, müzakerelerin
30 ocaktan önce tamamlanmasının mümkün görünmediğini kaydetti.
HABERİN ORJİNALİ
Greece’s
finance minister Evangelos Venizelos had said that negotiations would continue
on Saturday after a four-and-a-half hour meeting with officials broke up in the
early hours of the morning.
But
at lunchtime on Saturday, there were reports that representatives of Greece's
private creditors had left Athens unexpectedly without a deal on the debt swap
plan that is vital to avert a disorderly default.
Charles
Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance, a
Washington-based lobby group representing creditors negotiating with the
government, was said to have flown to Paris. Jean Lemierre, special adviser to
the chairman, was also thought to have left for the French capital.
Negotiations
will continue over the phone, but it is thought to be unlikely that an
agreement can be clinched before next week.
Athens
is anxious to strike a deal with its creditors before a meeting on Monday of
eurozone finance ministers, just in time to set in motion the paperwork and
approvals necessary to receive the next tranche of aid and avoid a messy
bankruptcy in March when it faces €14.5bn of bond repayments.
Mr
Dallara had earlier said that "elements of an unprecedented voluntary
private-sector involvement are coming into place”.
“Now is the time to act decisively
and seize the opportunity to finalise this historic deal and contribute to the
economic stability of Greece, the euro area and the world economy," he
added.
There had been suggestions on Friday
night that Greece was on the verge of a breakthrough in talks. Sources told Reuters that private bondholders will likely
take a hit of 65 to 70pc on their holdings, with Greece’s new bonds featuring
30-year maturity and a progressive coupon, or interest rate, averaging out at
4pc. Haggling over the coupon was said to have held up the long-running talks.
“There’s been significant progress,”
Hans Humes, president of Greylock Capital Management and a member of the
creditor committee, told Bloomberg. “There’s broad agreement about the coupons
and structural elements.”
“If the IIF shake hands with the
other side of the table, we will have a 90pc or higher acceptance rate,”
The International Monetary Fund
insists that the debt swap deal must cut Greece’s debt burden enough to bring
it down to 120pc of GDP by 2020 from 160pc now, as agreed in October, which is
made even more difficult by the fact that Athens’ economic prospects have
deteriorated since.
The paperwork alone is expected to
take weeks, meaning failure to secure a deal soon could put Athens at risk of a
chaotic default in March, which in turn could jolt the financial system and tip
the global economy into recession.
