The well-wishers included National Secretary of the Communist Party of France Marie-George Buffet, General Secretary of the Portuguese Communist Party Jeronimo Carvalho de Sousa, Chairman of the Communist Party of Russia Gennady Zyuganov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka D.E.W.Gunasekera, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Mujahidul Islam Selim, Chairman of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia Vojtech Filip, General Secretary of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, Chairman of the Hungarian Communist Workers' Party Gyula Thurmer, Chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party Miyeegombo Enkhbold, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Lee Hsein Loong of Singapore, Chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister of Japan Junichiro Koizumi, and President of the Republic of Korea Roh Moo Hyun.