Tanzanian Leader Meets with CPC Delegation
(2007.11.04)


Dodoma, Nov. 4 -- Vice-chairman of the Tanzanian ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) and President of Zanzibar Amani Abeid Karume met in the city of Dodoma in central Tanzania today with the CPC delegation headed by Li Jingtian, member of the Central Committee and head of the Party History Research Center of the CPC, who is here to attend the eighth National Congress of the CCM.

Li extended congratulations to the CCM congress on behalf of the CPC Central Committee, and conveyed greetings of the CPC leaders to their Tanzanian counterparts. Karume also asked Li to send his best regards to the leaders of the Communist Party of China.

On the eighth CCM National Congress held here today, President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete was reelected chairperson of the party, Karume and former speaker of the National Assembly Pius Msekwa were elected vice-chairmen.

The CCM was established in 1977 through the merging of the Tanganyika African National Union of the mainland and the Afro Shiraz Party of the Zanzibar island.


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