World Bulletin / News Desk 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet for informal talks on Thursday evening on the sidelines of a summit in Riga this week, a spokesman for the German government said.

The summit in Riga this week between leaders of the European Union and its eastern European partners a German government official said on Tuesday.

However, such a meeting will not take decisions on Greece's debt and reform negotiations, for which talks with the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund are the decisive format, said the official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity.