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Former UN spokesman now teaching in China
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-02-23 09:01
The former spokesman of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has found himself in
China's eastern province of Zhejiang teaching undergraduates about international
diplomacy.
Fred Eckhard, who retired from his UN post in June, got the teaching job
after commenting to a Chinese journalist during a retirement party in New York
about his wish to teach at Zhejiang University, Xinhua news agency reported.
After his dream was reported in local papers, the university immediately
contacted Eckhard and offered him a contract, the report said.
Eckhard will teach one course entitled "How to Be A Spokesperson" and one
optional course called "United Nations After the Cold War," university sources
said.
Being addressed as "professor," however, has made Eckhard a bit uneasy, the
report said.
"As a matter of fact, I am not a real professor, I'm just a spokesman, or
more exactly I used to be a spokesman," he said.
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