List of foreign delegations at the 21st Japanese Communist Party Congress
Below is the list of foreign delegations attending the 21st Congress of the Japanese Communist Party, held between 22 and 26 September 1997. Cuba: Communist Party of Cuba Alberto Rodriguez Arufe, Vice Chief of Department of International Relations El Salvador: Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front: Hector Acevedo Moreno, Secretary for Art and Culture, Vice Secretary for International Relations France: French Communist Party Paul Lespagnol, Secretariat Member Germany: Party of Democratic Socialism Helmut Scholz, Coordinator of Peace and International Policy Working Group India: Communist Party of India A.B. Bardhan, General Secretary Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury, Politburo Member Italy: Communist Refoundation Party Claudio Grassi, National Secretariat Member Jordan: Jordanian Communist Party Amal Naffa, Politburo Member, Chief Editor of al-Jamahir Laos: Lao People's Revolutionary Party Thongsay Bodhisane, Ambassador to Japan Mexico: Cardenist Party Teresa Pandura, National Secretary of Finance Guillermo Andrade, Central Committee Member Portugal: Portuguese Communist Party Albano Nunes, Secretariat Members, Head of International Department Spain: Communist Party of Spain/United Left Angela Sierra González, Member of the European Parliament Sweden: Left Party Jonas Sjöstedt, Member of the European Parliament United States: Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism Zachary Robinson, National Executive Committee Member Vietnam: Communist Party of Vietnam Pham The Duyet, Political Bureau Member Pham Van Choung, Vice Chairman of the External Relations Commission Doan Ngoc Canh, Head of Department of the External Relations Commission Moreover, the following guests participated as individuals: John Manning (USA), Ole Korpeitan (Norway), Francisco Nemenzo (Philippines) and Gilma Camargo (Panama).