Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Ha Noi, April 20 (VNA) -- Vietnamese and foreign delegates continued delivering speeches and greetings on the second working day, April 20, of the National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.

Pham The Duyet, permanent member of the Standing Board of the Party Central CommitteeEs Political Bureau, presided over the session in the morning.

Foreign delegates who took the floor to congratulate the Congress in the morning included:

1. Valentine Kuptsov, First Vice President of the Russian Communist Party Central Committee and head of the delegation from the Russian Communist Party,

2. Jean Paul Magnon, Politburo member of the National Council of the French Communist Party and head of the delegation from the French Communist Party,

3. Ueda K-Chiro, Vice President of the Japanese Communist Party Central CommitteeEs Presidium and head of the delegation from the Japanese Communist Party,

4. Joell Fishman, Politburo member of the Communist Party of the USA Central Committee and head of the delegation from the Communist Party of the USA,

5. A.B. Bardhan, Secretary General of the Communist Party of India Central Committee and head of the delegation from the Communist Party of India,

6. Harkishen Singh Surjeet, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), (CPI-M) and head of the delegation from the CPI-M,

7. Lim Boon Heng, Cabinet Minister and General Secretary of the Singaporean Trade Union Congress, head of the delegation from the PeopleEs Action Party of Singapore,

8. Latif Nasayef Jasem, Politburo member of the Iraqi Socialist Arab Baath Party Central Committee and head of the delegation from the Iraqi Socialist Arab Baath Party,

9. Se Rex Kosal, Deputy General Secretary, Advisor to the Party President, Cambodian Senator, and head of the delegation from the National United Front for a Cooperative, Independent, Neutral and Peaceful Cambodia (FUNCINPEC), and

10. Tsutomu Takebe, member of the House of Representatives and General Secretary of the Japan - Viet Nam Inter-Parliamentary Union, and head of the delegation from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

This afternoon, the Congress was chaired by Party Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Manh Cam.

The Congress continued to hear speeches and congratulations.

Foreign delegates who addressed the Congress included:

1. Badak Losol, member of the Mongolian PeopleEs Revolutionary Party (MPRP) Central Committee and head of the MPRP delegation,

2.Haji Muhammad Taif, Vice President of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party and head of the UMNO delegation,

3.Krassimir Stoyanov, member of the Supreme Council and Secretary of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) Central Committee and head of the BSP delegation,

4.Martunhiuk Adam Ivanovich, Second Secretary of the Ukraine Communist Party (UCP) Central Committee and head of the UCP delegation,

5.Hassan Charfo, Director of the Communist Party of Czech and Moravia (CPCM) Central CommitteeEs External Relations Commission and head of the CPCM delegation,

6.Marco Conslo, member of the Italian Refounded Communist Party (IRCP) Central Committee and head of the IRCP delegation,

7.Piergiorgio Bergonzi, member of the Party of Italian Communist (PIC) Central Committee and head of the PIC delegation,

8.Babis Angourakis, member of the Communist Party of Greece (CPG) Central Committee in charge of external relations and head of the CPG delegation,

9.Hani El Hassan, member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Committee and head of the PLO delegation, and

10.B.R. Bhagat, former Parliament Speaker and head of the Indian National Congress (I) Party delegation.

Also today, two press conferences were held on the sidelines of the Congress:

The first, held in the morning by Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien, who is also member of the Party Central Committee, was about Viet Nam's foreign policy and its international economic integration.

The second, held in the afternoon by Pham Van Tho, member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Head of its Organizational Commission, was about the nationwide Party building and strengthening movement.--VNA