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1st LD: Eurogroup FinMins' meeting on Greece "positive": group head

Xinhua, August 15, 2015 Adjust font size:

Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Friday that the finance ministers' meeting on Greece turned out "positive".

The outcome of the meeting made the weeks-long negotiation in Athens "pay off," Dijsselbloem told a press conference after an extraordinary Eurogoup meeting on Greece.

The ministers gathered here to discuss Greece's third bailout plan worth around 86 billion euros (about 95 billion U.S. dollars) under the European Stability Mechanism.

Earlier in the morning, the Greek parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of adopting series of new austerity measures to secure the long-awaited bailout plan.

Debt-torn Greece is facing an urgent repayment of a 3.2-billion-euro loan to the European Central Bank due on Aug. 20. Endit