IMF tells Greece: no debt relief before reforms

Christine Lagarde comments likely to infuriate Greek government, whose plea for debt relief and bailout extension was rejected

Greece must sign up to economic reforms before it gets debt relief, the International Monetary Fund, one of the country's main creditors, has said.

Christine Lagarde, the head of the fund, said it would "be preferable to see a deliberate move towards reforms" in Greece before debt relief was offered.

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