The visit of Traian Basescu to Chisinau announced for Wednesday comes on a background of strained relations with the Moldovan leadership, after the Romanian president stated, on 11 August, at a summer school in Romania, that „Moldova cannot endlessly have the bad luck of having political leaders directing their actions against their own people”. As Info-Prim Neo News Agency reports, his first trip to Chisinau on January 21, 2005, was understood, especially by the opposition politicians who voted for Vladimir Voronin on April 4, as a gesture of backing the Moldovan president to be elected for a second term. However later, president Basescu adopted an attitude towards Moldova that he resumed in the phrase: „Two countries, one people,” and in November 2007 he stated: “We are a single people divided into two. Earlier, or on middle term, we'll be together, even though we'll be in the EU.” A month later, on December 12, 2007, the Moldovan Foreign Ministry declared persona non-grata two employees of the Romanian embassy to Chisinau. During his last visit to Moldova, on January 16, 2007, president Traian Basescu said, in two weeks, Romanian consulates were to open in Balti and Cahul, but the Moldovan authorities later proved to be reluctant at the idea. In March, 2008, Romania offered Moldova to sign the Convention on the minor border traffic, but the Chisinau government conditioned the signing of the convention by the signing of the basic political treaty and the state border accord. Till this news has been aired, the Moldovan presidency has not issued any information about the visit of president Basescu. A press release from Chisinau City Hall announces the Romanian president is meeting general mayor Dorin Chirtoaca at 15.50 (20 August).