Greece releases documents to show efforts to placate euro zone

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Greece offered to accept conditions on an extension to its loan agreements with the euro zone, and even an inspection by the European Commission, at a fraught meeting in Brussels on Monday, documents released by Athens showed. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has consistently rejected any suggestion of foreign supervision of Greece's finances by EU/IMF lenders. The documents included statements made by Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis at meetings this week and last of euro zone finance ministers, and were released in an apparent effort to dispel criticism that Athens showed up unprepared and without numbers to back up its proposals. At Monday's Eurogroup meeting, Greece was willing to accept the terms of its loan agreements and the Commission review at the end of an interim period.

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