Leaders of many more friendly parties and organizations from around the world have sent congratulatory messages to the Communist Party of China on the convening of its 17th National Congress.

These leaders include:

Oscar Zamora Medinaceli, president of Bolivia's Leftist Revolutionary Front and ex-president of the Bolivian Senate, and Walter Villagra Romay, general secretary of the Leftist Revolutionary Front;

Patricio Echegaray, general secretary of the Communist Party of Argentina, and Jorge A. Kreyness, the party's secretary of international relations;

Medardo Gonzalez, general coordinator of Farabundo Marti for the National Liberation Front of El Salvador;

Gisela Chung, president of the Liberal Republic Nationalist Movement of Panama;

Hugo Guiraud, chairman of the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Panama;

Alberto Anaya Gutierrez, senator and general coordinator of the Workers Party of Mexico;

Pavel Brglez, general secretary of the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia;

Srdan Milic, president of the Socialist People's Party of Montenegro;

Robert Griffiths, general secretary of the Communist Party of Britain;

Robert Hue, ex-president of the Communist Party of France and president of Gabriel Peri Foundation;

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece;

Imran Khan, chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement of Justice);

Raja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq, chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz);

Somawansa Amarasinghe, leader of the People's Liberation Front of Sri Lanka;

The Politburo of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan of Iraq;

Anatoly Karpov, president of the International Association of Peace Foundations.

(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2007)