Athens upbeat that deal will be wrapped up soon

The government was confident on Friday that negotiations with the country's creditors could be wrapped up soon.

Speaking to Sto Kokkino FM on Friday, government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos said he believed Greek officials and foreign auditors will have finalized "complementary" agreements with Greece's creditors by Sunday.

"We have reasons to hope that, by Sunday, we will have finished the text of the complementary memorandum and the agreement with the International Monetary Fund so that the bill with the prior actions can be finished and submitted to Parliament and voted on," he said.

From then on, he said "the institutions will have to write up a compliance report which will be submitted to the Eurogroup on May 22," he added.

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