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"Mt. Athos is a truly spiritual place," US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt tweeted on Tuesday, commenting on his first visit to the historic monastic community's Vatopedi Monastery.

"I profoundly thank Abbot Ephraim for introducing me to the rich history of Vatopedi on my first stop here," Pyatt said on his visit to the UNESCO World Heritage site in northern Greece.

Greece's ability to build alliances from a particularly challenging strategic geographical position and its commitment to NATO were the focus of comments by United States Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt at the Hellenic National Defense College in Athens on Monday.

Greece's position in the world is "unique" along Europe's southern flank as it occupies a challenging  strategic geography, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said on Monday, speaking at Greece's army school, the Hellenic National Defense College.

"We see Greece's position as critical and unique in the world, and particularly along Europe's southern flank," he said.

Greece and the United States should expect some "turbulence" over the next few months as Turkey gears up for the next presidential election in 2019, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt told Vice Greece in an on-camera interview published on Friday.

Washington has been "strongly engaged" from the "first hours" with regards to the arrest by Turkish authorities at the start of the month of two Greek soldiers who strayed across Greece's northeastern border while on patrol in bad weather, US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt said in an interview on Wednesday night.

Four aircraft fly in formation Tuesday as part of the annual joint Iniochos exercise, involving activity across the Athens Flight Information Region. Members of the air forces of Greece, the USA, the UK, Italy, the United Arab Emirates and Cyprus are taking part in the exercise, the aim of which is to boost the readiness of the air forces in the region.

US Ambassador in Athens Geoffrey Pyatt on Tuesday said that the United States is "fully engaged" over the issue of two Greek soldiers who are in custody in Turkey after being arrested earlier this month for accidentally crossing the border.

The Netherlands Embassy in Greece was late Thursday holding its quarterly pitching competition in which startups can win up to 15,000 euros.

Thursday's event, dubbed "The Squeeze," featured eight female pitchers and four expert women judges, in honor of International Women's Day.

The chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA), Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, received US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt in his Athens office on Wednesday.

Their meeting focused on developments in the broader region, as well as on the continued detention of two Greek soldiers by Turkish authorities and Greek-American ties, according to an official announcement,

The US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt said yesterday that it was important "that this really is the year that Greece turns the page on the crisis period."