US officials plan to meet representatives of 50 UN foreign missions soon to consider ways to cooperate more closely to check the problem.
Mettimano said the US campaign would be based on an aggressive strategy.
"Soft messages like `please protect the children' are gone; it does not resonate with these guys," he said.
"We are going for a hard, law enforcement penalty-based message: abuse a child in this country -- go to jail in yours," he said.
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