Samaras Back To Washington, New York

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who met with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House on Aug. 8 and with business leaders in Washington and New York, is making a return trip to the two cities to woo investors and discuss Greece's still-faltering economy. Samaras will leave on Sept. 28 and is scheduled to meet Vice-President Joe Biden, a supporter of Greek causes, on Oct. 1, and also with Christine Lagarde, chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) one of Greece's international lenders. Lagarde supports a plan to let Greece write off part of its crushing debt to the European Union and European Central Bank but not what it owes the IMF, the other partner in the country's Troika of lenders.

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