NINA VAJIC ELECTED AS JUDGE OF NEW EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

( Editorial: --> 8439 ) STRASBOURG, April 21 (Hina) - The Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly elected Nina Vajic, a Zagreb University Faculty of Law professor, judge of the new joint European Court of Human Rights. After Protocol 11 of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Basic Freedoms comes into force on 1 November this year, the Council of Europe will establish a new court which will replace the current European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights. Professor Nina Vajic was chosen from among three Croatian candidates for a period of six years. Vajic was born on 22 February 1948 in Zagreb, where she was educated. She received her PhD from Zagreb University's Faculty of Law, where since 1996 she has been working as a full-time professor of international public law. Vajic is also working on the issue of human rights, peaceful settlement of conflicts and regulations of international organisations. Vajic was a guest lecturer at other universities in Croatia and abroad. In 1992, Vajic attended a Geneva meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and chaired an expert group for establishing the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995. Since 1997 she has been a member of the Council of Europe's European Committee for Fighting Racism and Intolerance. (hina) jn rm/mrb 211821 MET apr 98