A critical audit of Greek finances to enable the debt-hit eurozone country to access a badly-needed slice of EU-IMF funds will conclude this week, the Greek finance minister said on Monday.
"We are concluding the negotiations and I hope they will be finished ... by Wednesday," Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou told Antenna TV.
The talks with auditors from the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank -- the 'troika' of creditors that bailed out Greece last year -- have dragged into an unprecedented fourth week and Athens' ongoing debt woes are causing friction in European capitals and market concern.
For more: AFP: EU-IMF to conclude Greece audit this week: finance minister
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