Greece will submit new proposals to its international lenders "shortly", its defence minister has said, after the country's cabinet met on Thursday.
Greece is due to present the proposals by 22:00 GMT on Thursday to secure a third bailout and prevent a possible exit from the eurozone.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has been seeking agreement from his ministers.
The new proposals will be studied by eurozone finance ministers on Saturday and a full EU summit on Sunday.
Defence Minister and junior coalition party leader Panos Kammenos gave no further details of the agreed plans as he left the PM's official residence, where ministers had been meeting.
Mr Tsipras met his cabinet to get their support for the package, likely to include tax rises and pension reforms, before submitting it to Greece's creditors.
On Wednesday Greece formally submitted a request for an unspecified loan from the European Stability Mechanism bailout fund.
This would be a fresh loan "to meet Greece's debt obligations and to ensure stability of the financial system", Greece says - in other words, to avoid bankruptcy.
The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, who will chair Sunday's EU summit, said he hoped to receive "concrete and realistic proposals of reforms from Athens".
Such proposals "will have to be matched by an equally realistic proposal on debt sustainability from the creditors. Only then will we have a win-win situation," Mr Tusk added.
However the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that "a classic haircut" (meaning reducing the value of Greece's debts) was "out of the question" for her.
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Speaking in Sarajevo, Mrs Merkel said the eurozone had dealt with the issue of debt sustainability in 2012.
'Just do it'
She described Sunday's EU summit as a decisive and important meeting.
"We must not forget that the Greek people are suffering at the moment," she said.
The German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble also ruled out debt relief for Greece, saying "there cannot be a haircut because it would infringe the system of the European Union".
Greece needs to implement reforms to win the trust of its eurozone partners, Mr Schaeuble said. He told a conference in Frankfurt that his message to the new Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos was: "Just do it!"
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