Resolution #7

Considering:

That the Heads of State and Government, gathered at the Third Summit of the Americas, agreed to entrust the Organization of American States (OAS) with organizing in Uruguay, within the framework of CIDI, a meeting of Ministers of Education with mandates including, inter alia, identifying and setting up appropriate hemispheric mechanisms to ensure the implementation of the education initiatives in the Plan of Action of the Quebec City Summit and continuing to promote actions on priorities identified at the Miami and Santiago Summits;

That the Plan of Action of the Santiago Summit established, as part of the Summit of the Americas follow-up process in the field of education, the Country Coordination mechanism, which was reaffirmed at the First Meeting of Ministers of Education held in Brazil;

That the OAS General Assembly has invited the member states to use CIDI mechanisms to conduct the inter-American dialogue and has urged them in particular to do so through the specialized or sectoral meetings at the ministerial level or its equivalent or through the inter-American committees, with the member states free to propose any necessary changes for the mechanisms to operate within CIDI,

Resolves:

1. To reaffirm that the Meeting of Ministers of Education within the framework of CIDI is the specific forum for implementing the dialogue on education matters intended to follow up on the mandates of the Summit of the Americas.
   
2. To maintain the coordination mechanism involving the eleven countries. (G-11)
   
3. To reaffirm that the country coordination mechanism is open to the participation of all interested countries.
   
4. To request the OAS General Secretariat to provide the coordination mechanism with the necessary support.
   
5. To entrust to the G-11 the elaboration of the creation of the Interamerican Commission of Education project, including for such matter all the interested countries. Such project should define its aims, specific contents and features for its operation and should be ready in a deadline period of not over three months. In the same manner, once the project is ready, request to the General Secretariat of the OAS, to present the project to all the Education Ministers for consideration and its approval.

Ministers of Education

I Meeting of Ministers of Education

II Meeting of Ministers of Education

Declaration by the Education Ministers of the Americas

Declaration against violence

Resolution: Project Proposals in Education

Resolution: Follow up mechanisms

III Meeting of Ministers of Education

IV Meeting of Ministers of Education
- Preparatory Meeting