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IMF: Don't See Any New Official Sector Greek Debt Restructuring Now

Potential negotiations to restructure European holdings of Greek government debt won't come until after details about Athens's 2013-2014 budget are known, an International Monetary Fund spokesman said Thursday.Euro-zone officials have said they are open to cutting the value of Greece's debt if Athens lives up to its vows for more budget cuts, higher revenues and a restructuring of the country's broken economy as part of a massive joint European-IMF bailout."Our projections show that further debt relief will be needed for Europe to meet its commitment to reduce Greek debt significantly to the program level," IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said.The joint bailout program targets cutting Greek debt to 124% of gross domestic product by 2020 and "substantially below" 110% by 2022. Euro-zone officials said they expect to review debt restructuring by the beginning of 2014."We don't envision any new [debt restructuring] discussions at this juncture," Mr. Rice said.He also said that there's no talk of...

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