Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos expressed confidence that the negotiations with its private creditors for a write-down of the Greek debt and with the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) 'troika' on a second bailout loan will be completed within the current week, speaking in Brussels late Monday after an EU summit, but noted however that "the difficulties continue to exist".

Prime Minister Lucas Papademos reiterated on Sunday afternoon that political leaders supporting his interim government "are in absolute convergence with the continuation of (PSI) negotiations and the positions we shall support."

Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos on Wednesday met with the heads of a troika delegation in Athens to review progress of negotiations towards reaching a new lending agreement for Greece. The two-hour meeting focused on all aspects of talks (fiscal, labor, pension and structural).
Ministry officials, speaking to AMNA stressed that the meeting finalized the timetable of talks -which will intensify in the coming days- both regarding PSI talks and agreeing on a new support package for Greece.

The first personal exhibition in China by the Greek painter and sculptor, Kostis Georgiou, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Suzhou, one of the oldest cradles of the Chinese civilization, was inaugurated on January 20th, 2012, in the presence of the Ambassador of Greece in China, Mr. Theodore Georgakelos.

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The first personal exhibition in China by the Greek painter and sculptor, Kostis Georgiou, in the Museum of Fine Arts in Suzhou, one of the oldest cradles of the Chinese civilization, will be inaugurated tomorrow, January 20th, 2012, in the presence of the Ambassador of Greece in China, Mr. Theodore Georgakelos.