The following leaders have also sent their congratulatory messages:
Rodrigo Duterte, former president of the Philippines;
Dilma Rousseff, former president of Brazil;
Rui Duarte de Barros, former prime minister of Guinea-Bissau;
Jalal El-Haridi, chairman of the Homeland Defenders Party of Egypt;
Laouan Magagi, president of the Alliance for Democratic Renewal Party and minister for humanitarian action and disaster management, Niger;
Gustavo Vallejo, national president of the Ecuadorian Socialist Party;
Jose Luis Centella, president of the Communist Party of Spain;
Jacques Cheminade, head of the French Solidarity and Progress party;
Jotham Napat, president of the Leaders Party of Vanuatu;
Adel Amer, general secretary of the Communist Party of Israel;
Landing Savane, general secretary of the And-Jef/African Party for Democracy and Socialism of Senegal;
Haroun Kabadi, secretary-general of the Patriotic Salvation Movement of Chad;
Reverien Ndikuriyo, secretary-general of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy in Burundi;
Foster Cummings, general secretary of the People's National Movement in Trinidad and Tobago;
Luis Villanueva, general secretary of the Peruvian Communist Party;
Iyiola Omisore, national secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Nigeria;
Abbas Zaki, member of Palestinian Fatah Central Committee and commissioner for relations with Arab countries and China;
Bernard Accoyer, former president of the National Assembly of France.
Xinhua