Α face-to-face meeting at a Brussels Group level is due today, following yesterday΄s teleconference, in light of the ECB’s Governing Council meeting and the EU Summit tomorrow at Riga.

Messages from the IMF, have long been clear: it is trying to disengage from the Greek program, it refers to impairment of debt and does not wish to participate in a new bailout for Greece.

The government wants to secure a single agreement with its EU partners which is what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has repeatedly noted, government circles said on Tuesday.

Greek MoD Panos Kammenos will eventually meet with the Deputy Secretary of Defence, and not with his US counterpart Aston Carter within the framework of his visit to Washington DC.