Fraternal Delegates Attending the 17th CPI(M) Congress

THE CPI(M) had sent out letters to 25 communist and workers parties abroad, inviting them to send their delegations to the 17th congress of the party, to be held at Hyderabad. Of these, 21 parties consented to send their representatives to the CPI(M) congress, while the rest four expressed their inability to do so. While the Communist Party of Russian Federation did not sent its delegation because of legal hurdles, the Communist Party of Chile was facing a tough situation at home because of the ruling class attack against the party. As for the Communist Party of Spain and Communist Refoundation of Italy, they were about to hold their own conferences around the same time.

The list of the delegations that attended the CPI(M) congress at Hyderabad is being given below in the alphabetical order.

Communist Party of Australia

Rob Gowland (Member, Central Committee Executive)

Workers Party of Bangladesh

Bimal Biswas (General Secretary)

Iqbal Kabir Zahid (Member, Polit Bureau)

Azizur Rahman (Member, Central Committee)

Communist Party of Brazil (PcdoB)

Maria do Socorro Jo Moraes Vieira (Member, Political Commission of Central Committee and Assembly Women of Minas Gerais State)

Communist Party of Britain Robert Griffiths (General Secretary)

Communist Party of Canada

Harijit Daudharia (Alternate Member to the Central Committee and Member, BC Provincial Executive)

Communist Party of China

Zhao Hong Zhu (Member, Standing Committee Deputy Head of the Organisational Department, Member of the Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC)

Tan Zhonghua (General Director of First Bureau of the International Department)

Yao Zhihong (Secretary to Zhao Hong Zhu) Ma Xuesong (Third Secretary of the International Department)

Mou Jinling (Interpreter)

Communist Party of Cuba

Raul Valdes Vivo (Member, Central Committee and rector of the Superior School "NicoLopez")

Abelardo Cueto Sosa (Functionary of Department of International of Central Committee)

Jose Eloy Valdes (Ambassador of Cuba)

AKEL of Cyprus Zaharias Kountouros (Member, Central Control Committee; Member, International Relations Bureau)

Communist Party of France

Daniel Cirera (Member, Presidency of the National Council and responsible for international relations of the FCP)

PDS of Germany

Wolfgang Grabowski (Ex-Ambassador of GDR and Members of the PDS International Commission)

Communist Party of Greece

Athanssios Paparighas

Communist Party of Israel

Dr Bakri Mohammed

Communist Party of Japan

Mr Morihara Kimitoshi (Deputy Director of International Bureau and member of the Secretariat)

Workers’ Party of Korea (North Korea)

Jang Kwang Son (Ambassador of DPRK to India)

Ho Sob (Section Chief, International Department of Central Committee, WPK)

Kim Hyok Chol (Desk Officer, International Department of the Central Committee, WPK)

Communist Party of Nepal (UML)

Jhala Nath Khanal (Chief, International Relations and member, Standing Committee)

Pramesh Hamal (Chairperson, Central Audit Committee)

Palestine Liberation Organisation

Khaled El Sheikh

(Ambassador of PLO)

Communist Party of Portugal Angelo Alves (Member, Central Committee and member, International Department)

Communist Party of South Africa

Blade Nzimande (General Secretary, SACP)

Justice Piitso (Member, SACP Central Committee; Provincial Secretary in the Northern Province in South Africa)

Communist Party of Sri Lanka Dew Gunasekera (General Secretary)

Communist Party of USA

Terrie Albano (Member, CPUSA National Board and National Committee, and Associate Editor, People’s Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo)

Communist Party of Vietnam

1.Nguyen Duc Trieu (Member Central Committee and President, Vietnam Peasant Association)

2.Nguyen Hoanh Son (Department Head, Commission for External Affairs)

3. Nguyen Van Dat (Counsellor, Vietnam Embassy in New Delhi)

4. Than Le Hoa (F) (Expert on the Commission for External Affairs)

Apart from these fraternal delegations, the following also attended the party congress:

1. Patrick Theuret, Editor, International Correspondence (France)

2. Zhao Zhag Yun, People’s Daily (China)

3. Takashita Takeshu, Akahata daily (Japan)

Messages of greetings were also received from the following parties:

Communist Party of Burma

Communist Party of Chile

Communist Party of Guatemala

Communist Party of Pakistan

Communist Party of Russian Federation

Communist Party of Turkey