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Athens is to ‘warmly’ meet the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrives in Athens in the early afternoon and will meet with the Prime Minister George Papandreou at 02.15 pm to discuss the rescheduling of the support payments of 110 billion euros that the Fund and the European Commission in cooperation with the European Central Bank granted Greece. As GRReporter wrote, the Euro zone finance ministers clearly saw that it won’t be possible for the Balkan country to settle with its private creditors and take the burden of the support payments of 110 billion euros at the same time. They decided a week ago to defer those payments with 6 years so Greece will begin to pay them back in 2021, not in 2015 as the Memorandum signed between the Greek government and the three institutions provided.

George Papandreou and Dominique Strauss-Kahn will make press releases after the meeting and then will have luncheon. The Managing Director of the IMF will speak before the Greek Parliament in the late afternoon on the need for the brave economic reforms undertaken by the Greek government. Deputies from the Communist Party of Greece decided to leave the hall while the guest from Washington is speaking and members of the Coalition of the Radical Left announced him unwelcome in Greece.

Citizens are invited to participate in two demonstrations at the time when the Managing Director of the Fund will be in the Parliament building to express their disapproval of Strauss-Kahn’s visit to Greece. Trade unions of the public and private sector organize on Klavtmonos square at 05.00 pm demonstrations for canceling the Memorandum, and the communist trade union organizes another demonstration on Syntagma Square at 07.00 pm.

The visit of Dominique Strauss-Kahn will continue tomorrow when he will meet with the President of New Democracy Antonis Samaras whose party did not support in Parliament the Memorandum with the IMF, the European Commission and European Central Bank. The Managing Director of the Fund will hold talks with the Governor of the Bank of Greece Giorgos Provopoulos later on Wednesday.