Japanese Communist Party Central Committee Chair Fuwa Tetsuzo and its Executive Committee Chair Shii Kazuo on May 31 sent the following congratulatory message to Manmohan Singh on his taking office as India's Prime Minister.
We offer you our warmest congratulations on taking office as Prime Minister of the Republic of India.
We wish you every success in carrying out the mandate given by the Indian people to improve the people's living conditions and strengthen India's democracy and non-alignment status. We hope that friendship and cooperation be further developed between our two countries and together work for peace in Asia and the world. (end)
