He said late on Sunday, the summit would begin at 18:00 (19:00 Moscow time) on Tuesday.
Earlier on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and European Parliament President Martin Schulz urged to convene such a summit.
Before the summit, the Euro Group (19 finance ministers of the Euro zone) are expected to have extraordinary meeting.
[tass.ru]
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Deputy Chinese foreign minister Cheng Guoping believes the Greek crisis will be “appropriately resolved” and the economy will turn around, Reuters reports...
ReplyDeleteHowever he would not say if Alexis Tsipras could attend an emerging powers summit later in the week in Russia.
“I believe that with the hard efforts of all sides, Greece’s economic situation will turn around. The economic crisis will be appropriately handled,” he told reporters, in China’s first official comment since the Greek vote.
“Whether or not it can be appropriately handled will not only have an important impact on Greece and its people, but will have an important impact on ... the world too.”
Asked whether Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras might come to this week’s summit of the BRICS group of five major emerging nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - Cheng said that as Russia was the host it was its decision on whether to invite other countries.
Russia’s finance minister said last week that Russia had not offered Greece the chance to become a member of the New Development Bank that is being created by the BRICS group...............theguardian.com