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Romania’s official delegation will include: Minister of Administration and the Interior Vasile Blaga, Minister of Economy, Trade and Business Environment Adriean Videanu, Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi, Minister of Transports and Infrastructure Radu Berceanu, Minister of Regional Development and Tourism Elena Udrea, Minister of Justice Catalin Predoiu, Secretary of State for Relations with Romanians Everywhere Eugen Tomac.

Traian Basescu will have a tete-a-tete with Interim President of the Republic of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu and then will attend a joint meeting of the delegations of the Republic of Moldova and Romania. At the end of these meetings Mihai Ghimpu and Traian Basescu will make press statements.

The agenda of the visit also includes the ceremony during which Mihai Ghimpu will award President Traian Basescu the Order of the Republic, the main state decoration of the Republic of Moldova, wreath laying at the monument to Stephen the Great and the tombs of poets Grigore Vieru, Ion Vatamanu, singers Ion and Doina Aldea-Teodorovici, politicians Anton Crihan, Gheorghe Ghimpu, Nicolae Costin.

In keeping with the programme of the visit, on the same day Traian Basescu will meet Prime Minister Vlad Filat, Mayor of the city of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca, the representatives of the parliamentary factions and the leaders of the Alliance for European Integration.
On January 28, on the second day of the official visit, Traian Basescu, accompanied by Mihai Ghimpu, will take part in the ceremony during which wreaths will be laid at the Romanian Parcel of Honour in the cemetery in the village of Cania, Cantemir district, and in the Romanian Cemetery of Honour at Tiganca.

Afterwards Mihai Ghimpu and Traian Basescu will go to Cahul, where they will deliver speeches to the students and professors of the Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu State University and will visit the headquarters of the future Consulate of Romania in Cahul.
Last Thursday, January 21, it was five years since the first official visit paid by Traian Basescu to the Republic of Moldova after he took over as Romania’s President in January 2005.

Two years later, on January 16, 2005, the Romanian Head of State was paying the first official visit to a foreign country after Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007 and, on this occasion too, reiterated Romania’s support to the European destiny of the Republic of Moldova. Late last year, after the communists were ousted from power, new Interim President of the Republic of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu extended the Romanian Head of State the invitation to pay a visit to Chisinau.

On January 22 Interim President of the Republic of Moldova Mihai Ghimpu agreed to have Romanian Ambassador Marius Lazurca accredited. Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodor Baconschi on Monday, in Brussels, on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council, during a working breakfast, launched the informal support group of the European action of the Republic of Moldova in the EU member states.