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By DEREK GATOPOULOS and NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press ATHENS,http://202.66.147.200/thread-311518-1-1.html, Greece (AP) Greece on Friday launched its official offer for a massive bond swap designed to knock euro107 billion ($142 billion) off its debt held by banks and other private investors,http://mmstw.bv1.mianfeidns.com/bbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1294075. The Finance Ministry issued the formal offer to banks and other investment funds under which creditors are called on to accept a loss of more than half the face value of the bonds they hold in return for new bonds with longer maturities,toms outlet. Success of the deal dubbed the Private Sector Involvement depends on a high level of participation. It is an integral part of the second international bailout for Greece, under which the country will receive euro130 billion ($174 billion) in rescue loans in return for further harsh austerity measures. The debt relief deal will force private bondholders to exchange their Greek government bonds with new ones with a 53.5 percent lower face value,http://zanazeen.com/index.php?do=/user/login/, longer maturities of up to 30 years and lower interest rates an annual 2 percent by 2015, 3 percent to 2021 and 4.3 percent after that. Private bondholders will also get a euro30 billion payment as part of the deal which is to be paid from the euro130 billion bailout,toms kids shoes. The formal announcement followed a Cabinet meeting which discussed implementation of the debt-crippled country's new austerity program. "We have made a titanic effort and I believe titanic is the right word to complete prior actions required for approval of financial support for the country and the process of the Private Sector Involvement which will be officially launched today," Prime Minister Lucas Papademos told ministers. On Thursday, Parliament approved an emergency law on the debt writedown, decided by the 17-member eurozone this week together with the euro130 billion ($173 billion) bailout. Charles Dallara, a senior banker who led the exhaustive bond-swap negotiations with Greece, said the deal would give Greece valuable time to implement long-term reforms needed to stabilize its crisis-hit economy. "It involves an unprecedented debt reduction and debt exchange, reducing Greece's debt by over euro100 billion, approximately 50 percent of Greece's GDP," Dallara said in a statement to a meeting of the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors met in Mexico City. "Coupled with concessional interest rates involving savings of up to euro90 billion