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Slovakia, Italy concur on need of solidarity with Greece

Xinhua, July 4, 2015 Adjust font size:

The principle of EU solidarity should hold when it comes to Greece, concurred Slovak and Italian foreign ministers Miroslav Lajcak and Paolo Gentiloni here on Friday.

"We're interested in helping Greece, but we also need to see the same interest from the Greek government. We have a problem to understand several steps and statements coming from Athens that don't seem to go in the direction of looking for a common solution," stressed Lajcak.

Gentiloni stated that Italy wasn't interested in ousting Greece from the eurozone or the EU.

"On the contrary, our goal has always been reaching an agreement," he said, adding that Greece announced a referendum on reforms instead.

"We wish to see the emergence of conditions for further activity of Greece in the EU and eurozone following the referendum," concluded Gentiloni.

Greece is set to hold a referendum on Sunday on a deal proposed by creditors. Endit