Spain's Salgado says cannot imagine Greek euro exit

PARIS May 25 (Reuters) - Spain's Economy Minister Elena Salgado said on Wednesday she could not imagine Greece having to leave Europe's single currency zone and return to the drachma.

Earlier in the day, Greece's European Union Commissioner Maria Damanaki, who oversees the fisheries portfolio, said the country could be forced to leave the euro zone if it failed to address is debt crisis. [ID:nATH006105]

"It's up to Prime Minister George Papandreou to speak for Greece," Salgado told Reuters on the sidelines of an OECD meeting in Paris.

Asked if an exit of Greece from the euro zone was a possibility, or if there were any plans for such a move, Salgado replied: "Please! Not only there is no planning in that direction but it's not even in our imagination." (Reporting by Julien Toyer, writing by Charlie Dunmore)