A Japanese Communist Party delegation led by Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo held talks with a Hungarian Workers' Party delegation led by president Thurmer Gyula on March 15 at the JCP head office in Tokyo.
Thanking the JCP for the invitation, Thurmer said that his party would like to study JCP policies and develop relations with the JCP.
Shii thanked the HWP for sending a representative to the JCP 23rd Congress in January and explained the Congress decisions, in particular the basic ideas of the JCP Program which underwent the first major revision since its adoption in 1961.
Thurmer and Shii agreed to further develop JCP-HWP relations based on the principles of sovereign independence, equality, and non-interference in each other's internal affairs. They also agreed to cooperate with each other on common tasks, including the establishment of international peace based on the United Nations Charter and a democratic international economic order in opposition to imposed "globalization", the abolition of military alliances, the removal of foreign military forces, and a withdrawal of the troops the two countries now deploy in Iraq.
The Hungarian Workers' Party was formed in 1989 by former ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party members who opposed the HSWP's adoption of a social democratic party line under the new name of the Hungarian Socialist Party. The HWP is aiming for socialism in the future. (end)
