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2nd LD Writethru: No enough progress made in talks on Greece debt crisis: Eurogroup head

Xinhua, February 12, 2015 Adjust font size:

Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on late Wednesday they didn't make enough progress in talks with Greek finance minister on the Greek debt crisis during the eurogroup meeting and talks will be continued next Monday.

"We did made progress but not enough to issue joint statement, we reached no joint conclusions, that's why there was no statement. It wasn't about wording, it was about not agreeing, " Dijsselbloem told reporters in a press conference.

"We did not go into detailed proposals or on details of any program, no common ground achieved," he said.

"We simply tried to work on next steps over next couple of days, but failed to agree, we will continue our talks on Monday and move on from there," he added.

Being the first time to attend Europgoup meeting, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told reporters after the press conference that he has many different opinions with his EU peers and hoping to continue the talks and there would be a conclusion next Monday. Endit