OEA/Ser.P AG/RES. 1810 (XXXI-O/01) 5 June 2001 Original: Spanish SECOND MEETING OF MINISTERS OF EDUCATION (Resolution adopted at the third plenary session, held on June 5, 2001; subject to review by the Style Committee) THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HAVING SEEN the Plan of Action of the Third Summit of the Americas and resolutions CIDI/RES. 71 (IV-O/99), CIDI/RES. 90 (V-O/00), and CIDI/RES. 13 (I-E/01), "Second Meeting of Ministers of Education"; CONSIDERING: That, through resolution AG/RES. 1572 (XXVIII-O/98), the General Assembly urged the member states to support the Meeting of Ministers of Education, and use that meeting as an example of how CIDI mechanisms can be used to follow-up on the commitments of the Second Summit of the Americas; That the Heads of State and Government, gathered at the Third Summit of the Americas, decided to entrust the OAS with organizing, within the framework of the Inter-American Council for Integral Development (CIDI), a meeting of Ministers of Education in Uruguay, to be held before the end of 2001, with a mandate, inter alia, to identify and set up appropriate hemispheric mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the education initiatives contained in the Plan of Action of the Quebec City Summit, and to continue to promote actions on priorities identified in the Summits of Santiago and Miami; and That the Government of Uruguay has offered to host the Second Meeting of Ministers of Education within the CIDI framework, RESOLVES: 1. To take note that CIDI has convened the Second Meeting of Ministers of Education in the framework of CIDI, to be held on September 24 and 25, 2001, in Punta del Este, Uruguay. 2. To instruct the General Secretariat, through the Unit for Social Development and Education and in coordination with SEDI, to provide the Ministers of Education with all the necessary technical and secretariat support for preparatory and follow-up meetings on the mandates of the Second and Third Summits of the Americas, contained in the sections on education. 3. To instruct the Nonpermanent Specialized Committee on Education (CENPES) to give priority to the multilateral projects, contained in the Inter-American Program of Education, when it prepares the report referred to in Article 21 of the Statutes of the Special Multilateral Fund of CIDI (FEMCIDI) on the partnership for development activities it recommends for execution in the year 2002. 4. To recommend to the member states to promote, with the support of the Unit for Social Development and Education in coordination with the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development (IACD), the preparation of multilateral projects related to the Summits mandates. 5. To request CIDI to report on the implementation of this resolution to the General Assembly at its thirty-second regular session