- 40 - 22. We agree to guarantee the continuity of the Summit projects currently underway: the Regional Education Indicators Program and the Hemispheric Assessment Forum. We also instruct the CIE to develop programs in the areas of equity and quality, education, training, evaluation, the professional development of teachers, and secondary and high-school education, using new information and communication technologies as their shared axis. 23. We thank the Mexican people and government for the special welcome they have extended to us during this Third Meeting of Ministers of Education. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the work of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education in ensuring the success of this event. We would also like to recognize the importance of the encouraging message given by the President of the United Mexican States, Vicente Fox, on the occasion of the meeting’s inauguration.