Special The importance of UNESCO: a last interview with Jaroslava Moserova
Jaroslava Moserova, who died from cancer on 24th March at 76, was one of the most widely respected Czech public figures. Following the fall of communism, she became well known for her work as a diplomat and then as a prominent Czech politician. With her perfect English, learned as a teenager in the United States just after the Second World War, she was often interviewed by Radio Prague. One little known aspect of her work in recent years was in UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, where she was appointed president of the General Conference in 1999. She was convinced of the useful role that UNESCO could play in the post-Cold War world, especially in education, and just two weeks before she died she talked to David Vaughan about her work for the organization.
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