国际英语新闻:Greece cannot return to era of bailout, submission: PM

ATHENS, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Greece cannot return to the "era of the bailout agreements and submission", Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on early Wednesday, addressing the parliament a few minutes before a scheduled confidence vote to the Left-led coalition government.

A few hours before an emergency eurozone meeting on Wednesday on the Greek debt crisis and an EU summit on Thursday, the Greek prime minister who was elected in the Jan. 25 general elections, sent a clear message to Greece's international creditors that his government intends to implement its anti-bailout and anti-austerity policy program.

"I am certain our European partners will respond to our proposals and we will achieve a mutually beneficial compromise," Tsipras said, referring to the bridge agreement Athens seek to replace the bailout which expires in late February until a final renegotiation of the Greek debt load.

"I would like to assure you there is no turning back .. .We have Greek people by our side. We cannot be blackmailed, we are not terrorized," he stressed.