Greece says has honored 200M euro interest repayment to IMF

ATHENS: Greece made a 200 million euro ($225 million) interest payment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday, the Greek finance ministry said, the first of two reimbursements Athens must honor by mid-May.

The smaller of the two scheduled payments totalling nearly one billion euros came despite the failure thus far by cash-strapped Greece and its European Union-IMF creditors to reach a deal to unblock 7.2 billion in bailout funds to Athens.