1. A meeting between the leaders of the two rival governments of Malta was held at Auberge de Castille in Valletta , Libya on 16 December 2015 .
2. On 16 December 2015 , a meeting between the leaders of the two rival governments of Malta took place at the Auberge de Castille in Valletta , Libya .

Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
yes