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2013 October 2 - 8 [JCP]

This week’s JCP international activities

Ichida attends reception by South Korean ambassador

Japanese Communist Party Secretariat Head Ichida Tadayoshi on October 3 attended a reception at the official residence of the South Korean Ambassador to Japan to celebrate National Foundation Day (October 3), and Armed Forces Day (October 1).

He offered his congratulations to Ambassador Lee Byung-kee and had friendly talks with other participants from both home and abroad.

Fuwa expresses condolence on death of Vietnam’s General Vo Nguyen Giap

Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute Director Fuwa Tetsuzo sent a telegram of condolence on the death of former Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap who died at the age of 102 on October 4.

Giap played a significant role as the supreme commander of the Vietnamese forces in the struggle for the unification of Vietnam. After the unification, he served the nation as deputy prime minister, defense minister, and member of the political bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Fuwa in his telegram said that he first met Giap in February 1966 when Fuwa visited wartime Vietnam as a member of the JCP delegation to the country, pointing out that that was the time when the relationship between the two communist parties marked a new start. “I would like to offer my deepest condolences on the passing away of an old comrade,” he concluded.

JCP Kami in Indonesia demands Japanese Gov’t walk out of TPP talks

Japanese Communist Party member of the House of Councilors Kami Tomoko on October 7 met with a Japanese government official in charge of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact in Indonesia and handed him a written statement demanding that the government withdraw from the negotiations.

She demanded that Prime Minister Abe Shinzo not reach an agreement in the TPP leaders’ meeting scheduled for October 8, the Japanese government withdraw from the negotiations, and the details of the negotiations be disclosed to the public.