The Minister of Foreign Affairs pointed out that the Hellenic Export Credit Company “was created with the eyes on the best European and global practices”.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs called it an “timely reform”. Nikos Dendias its creation Hellenic Export Credit Company SAin his speech at the presentation event of the new OAEP corporate identity.
“During the years of the crisis, the difficult decade of 2010, when I was Minister of Development, I had said that it was absolutely clear that if Greece cannot increase its exports, whatever happens with the debt does not matter. We will return to the crisis point again after some years”, Mr. Dendias pointed out.
He noted that for this reason the mandate given to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by the Prime Minister, among other things, to serve the promotion of Greek exports is particularly important.
“For us this is psychologically easy, because we believe in Greek products, their value, their quality. We believe in the soulful potential, in the Greek industrialist, in the Greek craftsman, in the Greek man and in the Greek entrepreneur. We believe in their ingenuity, competence, professionalism”he said.
“Today, we are coming to fill an important gap that was creating difficulties in the export activity of our country”he emphasized.
He pointed out that the Hellenic Export Credit Company “created with eyes on European and global best practices”.
“We used the valuable assistance of the Italian organization SACE and adopted the best of European and international experience”he said, while adding that the Organization achieved the equal and sincere cooperation of a number of entities in the country’s export ecosystem: SEVE, PSE, SEK, financial institutions, private insurers, institutional bodies.
“The cordiality of the collaboration and the sincerity can be seen in the way this reform has been accepted by this ecosystem” pointed out.
“Today we turn a page. We now have the ability to support the Greek exporter much better, much more correctly, much more effectively”he underlined.
“Beyond the obvious effect on the standard of living of our country, the commercial partnerships, the bridges created with exports, have an additional important added value,” said Mr. Dendias and added: “They create understandings and approaches between states and societies, they stabilize and deepen the alliances and understandings that the ministry and the government have already concluded. And they also bring societies closer together, to remove friction and misunderstandings.”
“Today’s important reform is for our ministry, for us who adopt it, for the government, for Greek society, for the country a very important step forward”concluded.
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