Paraguay Prez opens Israel embassy in Jerusalem, third nation to do so

Jerusalem: Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes inaugurated his country’s Israel embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, making it the third nation to make the deeply controversial move after the United States and Guatemala. Cartes and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the inauguration of the new embassy in a Jerusalem office park. The Paraguayan leader called it a “historic event”. “This act has profound significance in the sense that it expresses Paraguay’s sincere friendship and full solidarity with Israel,” he said. Netanyahu said cooperation between the two countries would become “greater,” naming areas such as agriculture, security and technology. AFP