Leaders of more friendly parties and organizations from around the world have congratulated the Communist Party of China on the convening of its 17th National Congress.

These leaders, parties and organizations include:

Hakainde Hichilema, president of Zambia's United Party for National Development;

Seyyed Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, chairman of the Central Council of Iran Parties House;

Cagri Erhan, deputy chairman of the Democratic Party of Turkey;

Emil Boc, president of the Democratic Party of Romania, and Sorin Frunzaverde, the party's vice president;

R. G. Tovmasian, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia;

Jozef Hrdlicka, president of the Communist Party of Slovakia;

Andres Paez, president of the Democratic Leftist Party of Ecuador;

Victor Andres Garcia, president of the Popular Action of Peru;

Efrain Cepeda Sarabia, president of the Conservative Party of Colombia, and Soraya Galvis Cobo, the party's secretary of international relations;

Ota Akihiro, president of Japan's New Komeito;

Prakash Mandotia, national convener of the Foreign Affairs Department of India's Nationalist Congress Party;

Dato' Seri Chia Kwang Chye, secretary-general of the People's Movement Party of Malaysia;

Muhammad Farooq Sattar, deputy convener and parliamentary group leader of the United National Movement of Pakistan;

Soogil Young, president of South Korea's National Strategy Institute;

Wieslaw Klimczak, chairman of Poland's Civil Association "Polish House";

Milo Markovic, chairman of the Veterans Union of People's War of Liberation of Montenegro.

(Xinhua News Agency October 19, 2007)