Word: unesco
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...hours before the Millennium Summit, Annan's office contacted Iranian and U.S. officials to see if the two Presidents would be willing to sit through the other's speech at the General Assembly. Another idea was for Albright to attend Khatami's address a day earlier at a UNESCO gathering. Replies were positive, but Annan and his staff worked intensively with the two sides up to the last minute ironing out political sensitivities and logistics. Under fierce pressure back home from religious hard-liners, Khatami took a risk being party to the arrangements. For their part, Clinton and Albright needed...