The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has insisted on separate assurances from the Greek government on its role in bailout talks, delaying its arrival in Greece where European creditor delegations were due to arrive on Friday, media reports said, according to dpa. Financial papers in Athens reported that the IMF wants to have laid out clearly the conditions under which the talks will take place and has insisted that it carry out checks according to its own agenda separate from European delegations. The IMF says Greece's public debt must be restructured if the bailout is to have any chance of success, but European creditors have failed to give definitive pledges thus far. The European delegation arriving in Athens includes representatives from the European Union, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the European Central Bank (ECB).
