Accra, Sept. 29. GNA- The Governing Council of the African Youth Command (AYC) on Sunday congratulated members and new leadership of the Convention People's Party (CPP) for the successful congress held last week.

In a statement signed by Alhaji Yakubu Salley, General Secretary of the AYC in Accra, the Command advised the new CPP leadership to be "upward looking".

Members of the party should sacrifice individually, severally and jointly to create the seed funds for the CPP to contest in the 2004 elections, it said.

The statement said AYC believes that the mainstay of the CPP could effectively provide the missing link for the promotion and defence of good governance, rule of law and justice, as well as national reconciliation and protection of human rights, which are the rare attributes of African Democratic culture in Ghana.