KHARRAZI AT THE UNITED NATIONS IN NEW YORK, 2002-05-10 (photo)

Dr. Kamal Kharrazi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Isllamic Republic of Iran 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 CME/jp