Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds his first meeting with a world leader since landing in New York for his United Nations General Assembly address with Paraguayan President Santiago Peña.
Netanyahu praises Pena for his country’s “consistent opposition to anti-Israel bias at the UN, the International Criminal Court and other international bodies,” reads a statement from Netanyahu’s office.
The two “discussed expanding cooperation between Israel and Paraguay in a range of fields, including security, technology, energy and more,” according to the statement.
Netanyahu thanks Peña for his “unwavering” support of Israel and for his “firm stance” against antisemitism and terrorism, “expressed among other things through Paraguay’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and Hamas as terrorist organizations,” the statement adds.
Peña also expressed his staunch support of Israel by moving Paraguay’s embassy to Jerusalem last year.
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