Gov't Holds New Round Of Talks With Troika

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Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Wednesday had a meeting with Government Vice-President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, leader of the PASOK party that supports the coalition government, to discuss the new round of talks between the Greek government and the EU-ECB-IMF troika officials representing the country's creditors.

Sources reporting on the meeting said that Samaras and Venizelos agreed that the negotiations must be concluded as quickly as possible so as to restore social harmony and calm. The prime minister and Venizelos also repeated that no new horizontal measures will be taken.

PASOK officials said the party wanted greater social justice in the single property tax and that Venizelos' position with respect to Greek defence industries was that they should retain their export activities and their liquidation conducted while they were in operation. (ANA-MPA)