Jakša Muljačić, LL. M. Ambassador Born: 13 December 1956 in Split, Croatia Marital status: married with one daughter Foreign languages: English Italian French Education: Diplomatic School, Osimo (Italy), March-August 1992; Master Degree in International and Private Law and International Relations (LL.M), Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 1987, paper: "International legal problems of fishing in the Adriatic Sea"; Bar exam, 1982; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 1980. Career and professional experience: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Swiss Confederation and the Principality of Liechtenstein, 20 July 2007-present; Ambassador at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integrations – Zagreb, from 1 August 2003; Assistent Minister in the Ministry of Justice, from 5 January 2004 to 1 September 2006; Head of the Office of the Government of the Republic of Croatia for Cooperation with the International Court of Justice and International Criminal Courts, from 1 September 2003 to 5 January 2004; Co-agent of the Republic of Croatia before the International Court of Justice in the case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Yugoslavia), The Hague, May 2000 present; Permanent Representative of the Republic of Croatia to the OPCW, The Hague, November 1998 – 31 July 2003; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, The Hague, 15 May 1997 – 31 July 2003 Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps in The Hague, December 2001 – 31 July 2003 ; Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Zagreb: Assistant Minister and Ambassador, April/May 1995-May 1997; Head of the Department for International Law, October 1994–April 1995; Head of the Section at the Department for International Law, March 1994–October 1994; Senior Counsellor at the Department for International Law, February 1992-March 1994; member of the Croatian Commission for Political Issues between the Republic of Croatia and the Italian Republic, 1994-1997; Croatian national coordinator for CEI, 1996-1997; member of the Croatian Commission for the border with FRY, 1996-1997; member of the Croatian Commission for Property Legal Relations with FRY, 1996-1997; member of the Croatian Government Board for the coordination of activities aimed at protecting Croatian interests in the succession of the former SFRY, 1996-1997; member of the Croatian delegation for concluding the Agreement on the Protection of Minorities with the Republic of Hungary, 1996; Chairman of the Croatian-Hungarian Joint Committee for the implementation of the Agreement on the Protection of Minorities; member of the Croatian delegation for concluding the Agreement on Normalization of Relations between the Republic of Croatia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 1996; Representative of Croatia in the Sixth Committee of the United nations General Assembly, New York, 1995-1996; Head of the Croatian delegation for concluding the Agreement on the Succession of Bilateral Agreements with the Republic of Poland, 1995; Representative of Croatia in the Prep-Com OPCW, The Hague, 1993-1994; Representative of Croatia in the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 1993-1994; took part as a representative of Croatia in the work of numerous meetings and conferences in the field of disarmament, international law of the sea, invironmental law, general issues of international public and private law (Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpilling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction of 1993; Treaty on the Non-Proliferation, Stockpilling and Use of Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons and Their Destruction; Convention on Prohibition or Restriction on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injourious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects; UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution; Council of Europe Ruling Committee on Legal Cooperation; Hague Convention on Protection of Cultural Properties with Additional Protocols etc.); Legal counsellor in „Croatia insurance company“, Zagreb, May 1983-January 1992; Law clerk at the District and Municipal Courts in Zagreb, September 1980-April 1983; Miscellaneous: Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague, July 1999-present; Croatian Society of International Law, October 1980-present; Medals Croatian: Order of the Early Croatian three-strand pattern, Commemorative medal of National Gratitude; Foreign: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Oranje-Nassau (The Kingdom of the Netherlands).