List of foreign delegations at the 21st Japanese Communist Party Congress explained

Below is the list of foreign delegations attending the 21st Congress of the Japanese Communist Party, held between 22 and 26 September 1997.

• Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba

• • Alberto Rodriguez Arufe, Vice Chief of Department of International Relations
• El Salvador

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front:

• • Hector Acevedo Moreno, Secretary for Art and Culture, Vice Secretary for International Relations
• France: French Communist Party
  • Paul Lespagnol, Secretariat Member
• Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism
  • Helmut Scholz, Coordinator of Peace and International Policy Working Group
• India: Communist Party of India
  • A.B. Bardhan, General Secretary
• Communist Party of India (Marxist)
  • Sitaram Yechury, Politburo Member
• Italy: Communist Refoundation Party
  • Claudio Grassi, National Secretariat Member
• Jordan

Jordanian Communist Party

• • Amal Naffa, Politburo Member, Chief Editor of al-Jamahir
• Laos

Lao People's Revolutionary Party

• • Thongsay Bodhisane, Ambassador to Japan
• Mexico: Cardenist Party
  • Teresa Pandura, National Secretary of Finance
  • Guillermo Andrade, Central Committee Member
• Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party

• • Albano Nunes, Secretariat Members, Head of International Department
• Spain: Communist Party of Spain/United Left
  • Angela Sierra González, Member of the European Parliament
• Sweden: Left Party
  • Jonas Sjöstedt, Member of the European Parliament
• United States: Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
  • Zachary Robinson, National Executive Committee Member
• Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam

• • Pham The Duyet, Political Bureau Member
  • Pham Van Choung, Vice Chairman of the External Relations Commission
  • Doan Ngoc Canh, Head of Department of the External Relations Commission

Moreover, the following guests participated as individuals: John Manning (USA), Ole Korpeitan (Norway), Francisco Nemenzo (Philippines) and Gilma Camargo (Panama).

Messages to the congress were sent from

• Bangladesh

Workers Party of Bangladesh

• Cuba

Communist Party of Cuba

• Cyprus

Progressive Party of Working People

• Czech Republic

Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia

• El Salvador

Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

• Germany: German Communist Party
• Greece: Communist Party of Greece
• Hungary: Workers Party
• India: Communist Party of India
• India: Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• Laos

Lao People's Revolutionary Party

• New Zealand: Peace Council of Aotearoa-New Zealand, Inc.
• Philippines

Akbayan

• Philippines

BISIG

• Portugal

Portuguese Communist Party

• Russian Federation

International Association of Scholars for Democracy and Socialism

• Slovakia

Communist Party of Slovakia

• Sri Lanka

Communist Party of Sri Lanka

• Sudan

Sudanese Communist Party

• Switzerland: Swiss Party of Labour
• Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam

References

• Japanese Communist Party, For a Democratic Government in Japan in 21st Century, Japanese Communist Party 21st Congress. Tokyo: Japan Press Service, 1997.