i want to thank the valuable intellectual leadership provided all along by andrew selee, doris meissner, and demetrios papdemetriou. let's make it for growth and development in our countries. thank you very much. >> thank you, and i should say thank you, president zedillo. the president started us off in a way that he typically has done in his public service as well as his work in this endeavor, and that is by touching on the key themes in a very coherent fashion, because this has been an effort that is very expensive. we are talking about very big themes here, very long-term commitments and efforts, but nonetheless, things have to start somewhere at some time, and these very important issues of how migration really fits within the broader context of well-being for each of our countries as well as the region overall is what it is that we have tried to get our arms around and begin to point to in this effort. now, president zedillo talked about the fortunate elements of timing. timing fell in a way that we would never be able to anticipate when we began this a few years ago. where the ti

this first between these remarks were going to have -- doris meister and i think i saw andrew, andrew seleewho came back in, to sort of pick up some of the comments that they would like to make. then we're going to hear from ambassador jones. he has had a great deal of experience on the key issues of the report, not just the u.s.-mexico relationship, but a key interest in education. and then we are going to hear from the we is rubio, of course we all know, he's one of the public intellectuals extraordinary in the region. at the end of this, an hour or so of presentation, i will try to sum up a little bit and then open it up to questions. once more, good morning and thank you very much for coming. >> dear friends, i truly regret that the long-standing commitments do not allow me to be with you for today's presentation of the final report of the region's migration study group. -- [inaudible] i want to express my deep satisfaction for the work done. this report is of enormous relevance can not only for -- [inaudible]. when the study group first met in 2011, little did we know that towards the

i want to thank the valuable intellectual leadership provided all along by andrew selee, doris meissner, and demetrios papdemetriou. -- for growththe and development in our countries. thank you very much. >> thank you, and i should say thank you president zedillo. the president started us off in a way that he typically has done in his public service as well as his work in this endeavor, and that is by touching on the key themes in a very coherent fashion, because this has been an effort that is very expensive. we are talking about very big themes here, very long term commitments, and efforts, but none the less, things have to start somewhere at some time, and these very important issues of how migration really fits within the broader context of well-being for each of our countries as well as the region overall is what it is that we have tried to get our arms around and begin to point to in this effort. now, president zedillo talked about the fortunate elements of timing. timing fell in a way that we would never be able to anticipate when we began this a few years ago. where the timing i