ATHENS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told Greeks on Thursday the problems they face because of closed banks "will not last long", saying he expected to clinch a new aid deal with creditors 48 hours after a Sunday referendum.
Tsipras told ANT1 television that scenes in Greece - queues at cash machines and a crush of elderly Greeks waiting hours for pensions - were "embarrassing", but he blamed Greece's euro zone partners that forced the European Central Bank to freeze vital funding to the banks.
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