28/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner (external relations) will be making a tour of Central America next week (30 September - 4 October), which will take her to Panama, Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. Just three weeks from the first round of talks on the association agreement between the EU and Central America, to be held in Costa Rica at the end of October, the Commissioner hopes to underline the importance that the EU attaches to concluding the agreement. In each country, she will meet the president, the minister for external relations, and civil society. She will also visit projects financed by the EU. (hb)