Foreign guests

The JCP 23rd Congress was attended by 24 overseas guests from 14 countries as well as members of diplomatic corps from 14 countries.

During the 5-day Congress, JCP Central Committee Chair Fuwa Tetsuzo, JCP Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo, JCP Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi, and other JCP leaders separately held meetings with the foreign guests.

On the first day, Fuwa and other JCP leaders met with 15 members of diplomatic corps who attended the Congress from the following 14 embassies: Angola, Indonesia, Ukraine, Cuba, Thailand, China. Tunisia, Palestine, Bulgaria, Vietnam, Vanezuela, Laos, Lybia, and Russia.

The list of foreign guests is as follows:

POLITICAL PARTIES

USA
Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
Scott Marshall, National Vice Chairman / Chairman of the CPUSA's Labor Commission

ITALY
Communist Refoundation Party
Bruno Steri, Member of the International Department / Member of the National Political Committee

INDIA
Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPIM)
Biman Bose, Member of Politburo / Chairman of Left Front committee in West Bengal

Communist Party of India (CPI)
Manju Kumar Majumder, Member of National Executive / Secretary of West Bengal State Committee

CUBA
Communist Party of Cuba
Oscar Martines Cordoves, Vice Chief, the Department of International Relations

CZECH REPUBLIC
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (CPBM)
Hassan Charfo, Head of Department of International Relations, Member of Central Committee
Oskar Marek, Member of Executive Committee

CHINA
Communist Party of China
Zhang Fengzhou, Vice Secretary-General, International Department / Director of Personnel Bureau, International Department
Chen Duming, Director of General Policy Division, No.2 Bureau, International Department
Li Chen, Attache of Japan Division, No.2 Bureau, International Department

TUNISIA
The Democratic Constitutional Rally
Abderrahmen Bouhrizi, Deputy Secretary-General

GERMANY
Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)
Helmut Ettinger, Deputy Head of the International Department

German Communist Party (DKP)
Detlef Fricke, Member of Central Committee / Chairman of Country District Organization Niedersachsen

NICARAGUA
Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN)
Antenor Rosales Bolanos, Director of Superintendency of Nicaraguan Banks

HUNGARY
Hungarian Workers Party (HWP)
Tamas Morva, Adviser to the Central Committee

FRANCE
French Communist Party
Richard Sheehan, Member of National Executive Committee

VIETNAM
Communist Party of Vietnam
Phan Dien, Politburo Member / Permanent Secretary
Nguyen Huy Quang, Deputy Director of External Relations Commission
Doan Ngoc Canh, Counselor, Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Nguyen Minh Ngoc, Specialist, Office of Central Committee
Ngo Chi Thanh, Specialist, Office of Central Committee

MEXCO
Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)
Juan Jose Garcia Ochoa, Member of National Council / Member of the Chamber of Deputies / International Relations Coordinator of the PRD Parliamentary Group in the Chamber of Deputies
Pablo Franco Hernandez, Member of the Chamber of Deputies

LAOS
Lao Peopleﾕs Revolutionary Party
Soukthavone Keola, Ambassador of Lao People's Democratic Republic

GUESTS
Erwin Marquit, Editor of Magazine "Nature, Society, and Thought" (Marxist Educational Press)

Chris Townsend, Trade Union Activist

OBSERVERS

Jiang Lifeng, Director, Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences / Standing Deputy President, Chinese Association for Japanese Studies

Gao Hong, Director, Department of Japanese Politics / General Secretary, Research Center of Japanese Politics, Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences


Messages from abroad

Following foreign organizations sent messages to the JCP 23rd Congress:

Communist Party USA
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (USA)
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of Cuba
Left Party (Sweden)
Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia
Communist Party of China
Socialist People's Party/Denmark
German Communist Party
Communist Party of Vietnam
Portuguese Communist Party
Lao People's Revolutionary
Communist Party of Sri Lanka
The Workers' Party, Ireland

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