Senior leader Jia Qinglin is to pay official goodwill visits to Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia later this month, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) announced Tuesday.

 

Jia, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is to visit Vietnam from March 20 to 24 at the invitation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF).

 

Jia, also chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, will visit Indonesia and Malaysia from March 24 to April 2 at the invitations of Hidayat Nur Wahid, chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia (MPR), and of Abdul Hamid Pawanteh, president of the Dewan Negara (Senate) of Malaysia.

 

(Xinhua News Agency March 14, 2006)