Foreign Minister Dr. Kamal Kharrazi speaks to the United Nations General Assembly
in New York on May 10, 2002. Delegates at a U.N. session on children worked into
Friday's early hours to craft a document all could sign, despite the United States'
stance against abortion and in favor of sexual abstinence. The three-day conference
was long on rhetoric about the sanctity of childhood but short on consensus on the
question of education -- a key topic of the meeting -- after U.S. Health Secretary
Tommy Thompson articulated a conservative position on matters of sexuality, notably
the teaching of abstinence as the preferred approach to sex education.
REUTERS/Chip East
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