Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou has postponed a planned visit to New York so he can focus on securing the next tranche of bailout funds.
Mr Papandreou had taken the decision as "next week is particularly crucial", his office said.
The premier had been due to head to New York today to attend the United Nations General Assembly and meet Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund.
Meanwhile Greece’s finance minister Evangelos Venizelos has said he will hold a teleconference next week to discuss the country's next tranche of bailout funds with officials from the so-called troika; the European Commission, IMF and ECB.
"The teleconference on Monday will focus on an accord regarding (austerity) measures, the state of public finances and the goals for 2011 and 2012 in the state's proposed budget," Mr Venizelos said in a statement.
The minister spoke from Poland where he was attending a meeting of EU finance ministers on the eurozone debt crisis.
Initially, representatives from the EC, IMF and ECB had planned to return to Athens next week to continue an audit of Greece after leaving earlier this month dissatisfied with the progress of the government's austerity drive.
However, Venizelos insisted that "the troika never interrupted its discussions with the Greek government."
"The three top officials left Athens but the troika's technical mission, which is overlooking public finances, is still in Athens," he said.
The trio of lenders visit Athens every three months to evaluate the progress of the plan to stabilise Greece's economy before giving the green light to release the next tranche of the 110 billion euro bailout approved in May 2010.
The head of the eurozone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, said they decided Friday to delay the decision on releasing the next eight billion euro tranche until early October.
"We will make our decision on the next tranche of aid in October, based on the comments of the troika," Juncker said.
