US ambassador, AmCham president praise Greece's progress at ExportUSA Forum

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Monday said that Greece is making "great strides towards creating a more welcoming business climate for investors and entrepreneurs," praising the recently elected government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis for "exceeding expectations" and doing "a tremendous amount of work to advance the reform agenda," the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) has reported.

Greece's progress "is helping to grow our trade relationship," Pyatt told the 4th annual ExportUSA Forum in downtown Athens on Monday night, adding that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Greece in early October "reinforced" this notion.

"We consider Greece to be an important economic partner, not just on its own terms, but also as a gateway to the Western Balkans and Southeastern Europe," he added.

"I am certain that our trade and...