CRO GOVT NOMINATES CANDIDATES TO EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS COURT ( Editorial: --> 6950 )

( Editorial: --> 6950 ) ZAGREB, Oct 30 (Hina) - At Thursday's session presided by Prime Minister Zlatko Matesa, the Croatian government allowed the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry to cover the interest on investments into this year's autumn sowing from the Fund for the Development of Agriculture. The funds were invested in areas of special government care (war-ravaged areas), the government's communications office said in a statement. The government forwarded to the Croatian President a draft decision on the closing down of the Croatian Embassy in the Islam republic of Pakistan as of 1 January 1998. The government nominated Zeljko Horvatic, Dubravka Simonovic and Ivana Goranic as Croatian candidates for European Human Rights Court judges. The government relieved Svjetlan Berkovic from the duty of director of the Diplomatic Academy as of 24 October 1997, due to his transferal to a new duty. Mladen Andrlic was appointed to his post as of 25 October 1997. (hina) lm 301734 MET oct 97