President of Israel Reuven Rivlin met with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes ahead of the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Jerusalem:
"Israel and the people of Israel thank you, Mr. President, for the deep and sincere friendship and the strengthening of relations between the countries under your leadership." "
"We owe you nothing, and you owe us nothing, it is the right thing to do," Cartes said at a meeting at the President's Residence.