Eurozone ministers to discuss Greece

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Eurozone finance ministers were to confer by telephone on Saturday after 12 hours of talks in Athens failed to produce a breakthrough on a Greek bailout deal, the Greek finance minister said.

Evangelos Venizelos added that a planned meeting by eurozone ministers on Greece originally scheduled for Monday would now be held on Wednesday.

"I will participate in a Eurogroup telephone conference at 1230 GMT" to discuss details of a rescue deal for Greece worth 130 billion euros ($171 billion) which officials have been trying to seal since October, Venizelos said in a statement.

The minister said "critical issues pertaining to the country's future remained open" after 12 hours of "tough" negotiations Friday with the European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank.

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