Paraguay president inaugurates Israel embassy in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM: Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes inaugurated his country’s Israel embassy in Jerusalem, making it the third nation to take the deeply controversial step after the US and Guatemala. Cartes and Israeli PM Netanyahu spoke at the inauguration of the new embassy in a high-tech industrial park in southwest Jerusalem. 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”.