CPI leaders to hold talks with Vietnam communist party brass

Top CPI leaders will hold bilateral talks with their communist party counterparts in Vietnam over the next week to strengthen ties between the two countries.
A three-member CPI delegation, led by party's National Secretary D Raja, would reach Ho Chi Minh city tomorrow and hold meetings with leaders of the Politburo and Central Committee, among others, of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi.
The delegation, which would return here on July 9, also includes senior CPI leaders Pallab Sengupta and Girish Sharma, Raja said.
The CPI leaders have been invited by the Communist Party of Vietnam to hold discussions on issues to "further promote friendship and cooperaton between the two parties and the two countries," he said.