The IMF was the first to break the silence, acknowledging that it had been urging debt relief but to no avail. The United States then let it be known that President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had been trying to convince German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble to offer debt relief to Greece, also without success.
当然，两周前谈判一崩溃，关于希腊债务的真相就开始被提及。IMF首先打破沉默，承认它一直在敦促债务纾困，但毫无成效。接着，美国透露其总统巴拉克和财政部长卢（Jack Lew）一直在试图说服德国总理默克尔和财政部长朔伊布勒（Wolfgang Schäuble）为希腊提供债务纾困，但也没有成功。