International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on Monday a further tranche of the loan for Greece, worth 2.2 billion euros, and has conditioned its continued cooperation with this country of an agreement "almost unanimous" of private creditors to reduce debt .
Institution of Washington said in a statement that the Board of Directors voted to release this amount, the sixth installment of a loan of 30 billion granted in 2010. It raises the total funds granted by the IMF Athens to 20.3 billion euros.



Greece expects additional funds from its European partners, who have pledged 80 billion euros in 2010. In total, eight billion euros have to be granted soon, writes Mediafax.ro.



Loan for Greece is the largest ever granted by the IMF, but he did not allow a return to growth and remove any fears of its public finances.



Greece, its European partners and a lobby group representing private creditors of Athens - Institute of International Finance (IIF) - ended in late October an agreement to delete half of the country's debt held by the private sector, it said Tuesday. en. But implementation of the Agreement has not yet been negotiated.



IMF considers that this is an important condition to continue to pay installments of the loan for Greece.



Fund said that progress was least satisfied with the Greek Government to grant the last installment in July.