“Greece and the other members of the EU have made important progress in both offering up needed support to the Greek government and to the Greek people as they confront some significant fiscal and economic challenges in their country,” the White House spokesman Josh Ernest said during the G7 summit.

Mr. Ernest underlined that “what we’ve seen from the Greek government is a genuine commitment to implementing some key economic and fiscal reforms that would put Greece back on a path to sustainable debt load.”

As he said, US President Barack Obama has praised EU leaders and Greece for making decisions that were not politically popular, but were critical for the global economy.

However, he stressed that there are important decisions that lie ahead, and the United States will be there to strongly support our allies and partners in Europe as they confront these significant challenges.