NBA Most Valuable Player Giannis Antetokounmpo has strengthened the relationship between the United States and Greece, US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said on Monday at the US Consulate, honoring the outstanding basketball player popularly known as "the Greek Freak".

Minister of Maritime and Island Policy Ioannis Plakiotakis met US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt on Monday.

US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt referred to US diplomacy vis-à-vis Orthodoxy and Orthodox Churches, while touching on the significance that Greek Orthodoxy holds for the nation of 11 million, in statements given to the Athens-based Orthodoxia news agency.