Cyprus Meeting With Eurozone Officials Delayed, As Crucial Deadline Nears

Meeting DELAYED As Crucial Deadline Nears
Employees of Laiki bank push barriers as riot police try to stop them during an anti-bailout protest outside the Cypriot parliament, Nicosia, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Cypriot officials were scrambling Thursday to cement a revised plan to raise funds demanded by international creditors in exchange for an international bailout Thursday, with time running out fast and the countrys economy just days away from potential ruin. (AP Photo/Christos Theodorides)
Employees of Laiki bank push barriers as riot police try to stop them during an anti-bailout protest outside the Cypriot parliament, Nicosia, Thursday, March 21, 2013. Cypriot officials were scrambling Thursday to cement a revised plan to raise funds demanded by international creditors in exchange for an international bailout Thursday, with time running out fast and the countrys economy just days away from potential ruin. (AP Photo/Christos Theodorides)

BRUSSELS, March 24 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers delayed by two hours a Sunday evening meeting intended to help Cyprus meet a Monday deadline to avert collapse of its banking system and potential exit from the euro.

A euro zone official said the Eurogroup meeting of finance ministers had been rescheduled for about 1900 GMT from 1700 GMT, because talks with Cypriot officials ahead of those discussions had overrun.

Ahead of the ministers' meeting Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades held talks in Brussels on Sunday with EU, European Central Bank and IMF leaders. (Reporting by Annika Breidthardt; editing by Rex Merrifield)

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