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Urgent: Greece appoints chief coordinator of negotiation team as new FinMin

Xinhua, July 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Greece appointed Euclid Tsakalotos, the deputy foreign minister of international economic affairs and chief coordinator of the country's negotiating team over a debt deal with lenders, as the new finance minister on Monday, an official announcement said.

Tsakalotos is replacing Yanis Varoufakis who stepped down early Monday morning. Endit