Newly seated President Leonel Fernandez, who was widely criticized for his many trips overseas only to be far outdone by Hipolito Mejia, will be on his way to Panama and the United States in September. Fernandez will be in Panama on 1 September for the inauguration of Omar Torrijos, that nation?s new head of state. The Diario Libre reports that both PLD party leader Reinaldo Pared Perez and the President?s minister for technical affairs, Temistocles Montas, will attend the ceremony. On 20 September, Fernandez will attend the Meeting of World Leaders for the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, sponsored by the United Nations and to be held in New York. Foreign policy had been a trademark of the previous Fernandez administration and this tendency appears to continue