New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he wants to reach a "fair, viable and mutually beneficial solution" with its international lenders as he begins to reverse the austerity measures he says have led to a humanitarian crisis in his country.
New Greek Government Holds First Meeting
![Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attends the first meeting of the new cabinet in the parliament building telling his ministers that voters had given them a mandate for radical change, in Athens, Jan. 28, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/bf1c5978-8b68-4790-a76f-142ea49b62fc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attends the first meeting of the new cabinet in the parliament building telling his ministers that voters had given them a mandate for radical change, in Athens, Jan. 28, 2015.
![The Athens stock exchange monitor shows the general index for January 28, 2015. The overall Athens stock market fell almost 8 percent, but the Greek five-year government bond yields hit around 13.5 percent, their highest level since a 2012 restructuring that wrote off a large proportion of Greek debt held by private investors.](https://gdb.voanews.com/e7cd26e2-eb63-4331-a200-526f7ad256d0_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The Athens stock exchange monitor shows the general index for January 28, 2015. The overall Athens stock market fell almost 8 percent, but the Greek five-year government bond yields hit around 13.5 percent, their highest level since a 2012 restructuring that wrote off a large proportion of Greek debt held by private investors.
![Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (2nd right) and Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis chat during the first cabinet meeting of the new government at the Parliament in Athens, Jan. 28, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/f1f2f1cd-5488-4fda-8bde-86f226f511c2_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (2nd right) and Deputy Prime Minister Giannis Dragasakis chat during the first cabinet meeting of the new government at the Parliament in Athens, Jan. 28, 2015.
![Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, an outspoken critic of the austerity measures, after being sworn in at the presidential palace in Athens, Jan. 27, 2015.](https://gdb.voanews.com/3b0dad16-36d6-4b9d-b2e7-4d7a1aea5d8a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, an outspoken critic of the austerity measures, after being sworn in at the presidential palace in Athens, Jan. 27, 2015.