Leaders of more foreign friendly political parties and a number of organizations have sent congratulatory messages to the Communist Party of China (CPC) on the convening of its 17th National Congress.

These leaders and organizations include:

Rashed Khan Menon, president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh, and Bimal Biswas, general secretary of the Workers Party of Bangladesh;

Dilip Barua, general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist);

Qazi Hussain Ahmad, ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan and president of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal of Pakistan;

Dew Gunasekara, general secretary of the Communist Party of SriLanka;

Narayan Man Bijukhhen, chairman of the Workers and Peasants' Party of Nepal;

Baudouin Deckers, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Belgium;

Thurmer Gyula, president of the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party;

Leo Clarke, general secretary of the National Council of the Saint Lucia Labour Party;

Jose Gonzalez Espinosa, chairman of the Workers' Party of the Dominican Republic;

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party for the Transformation of Honduras;

Carlos Filizzola, chairman of the Solidary Country Party of Paraguay;

Ramon Ruiz, treasurer of the Justicialist Party of Argentina;

Dr. Guillermo Bedregal, international secretary of the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement of Bolivia;

Jaime Paz Zamora, ex-president of the Republic of Bolivia and leader of the Leftist Revolutionary Movement-New Majority of Bolivia;

D. Tsakhilgaan, president of the Union for Peace and Friendship of Mongolia, and D. Bilegt, secretary-general of the Union for Peace and Friendship of Mongolia.

The Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation of Germany.

(Xinhua News Agency October 16, 2007)