President Rivlin: The agreements signed today, mark a new step in the growing partnership between our two countries. They show that together, we are much stronger, wiser, better.

PM Netanyahu showed FM McCully a map of the challenges facing Israel and emphasized that any diplomatic progress between Israel and the Palestinians would be the product of direct negotiations on the basis of the principle of two states for two peoples.

President Rivlin: I am hopeful that my visit will serve to deepen the ties between us and this wonderful people, with whom we have so much in common.

​I look forward to working with President-Elect Trump when he becomes President to further the twin interests of peace and security. These are interests of Israel and the United States but they'll be achieved by direct negotiations without preconditions.

President Rivlin: Next year we will mark 25 of our diplomatic relations. But I am more interested in what we can achieve in the next 25 years. Our two nations have changed the world before; it is time to do it again, together.

President Rivlin: Israel and India are threatened by terror, because we uphold the values of freedom. Nothing can justify terror. Terror is terror is terror. We stand together, with the whole free world in defending our peoples, and our values.

President Rivlin: “India is an important ally and close friend of Israel. This visit is a sign of the strong relations and friendship between our peoples, and I hope will plant the seeds for that friendship to grow closer and closer.”

President Rivlin: As we mark 25 years since the renewal of relations between us, your visit here is also an important opportunity to discuss the close ties between our peoples, and I am looking forward to our meeting today with you and your delegation.

PM Netanyahu: We are determined to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons and from establishing itself militarily in Syria. We are also determined to prevent it from establishing Shiite militias and arming Hezbollah with dangerous weapons.

We must internalize that we have no other country beside this great land, and we have no other people beside this great nation; and we have no other way to build this state but as a Jewish and democratic State.

PM Netanyahu: President-elect Trump is a true friend of the State of Israel, and I look forward to working with him to advance security, stability and peace in our region.

The two leaders had a warm and heartfelt conversation. They also discussed regional issues. President-elect Trump invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to a meeting in the United States at the first opportunity.