Stanisic decided to surrender after talks with Serbian State Administration Minister Zoran Loncar and Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Darko Matijasevic, who said the decision was moral and patriotic and in the best interests of Serbia and Montenegro and Republika Srpska, the Serbian government said in a press release.
The government added it would provide guarantees for Stanisic's provisional release.
The Hague tribunal yesterday released the indictment against Stanisic, charging him with crimes committed against Bosnian Muslims and Croats in 1992.
He is charged on the basis of personal and command responsibility with eight counts of crimes against humanity for persecutions on political, religious or racial grounds, extermination, deportation, murder, torture, inhumane treatment, and forcible displacement.
Stanisic is also charged with three counts of violations of the laws and customs of war for murder, torture, and cruel treatment.
He is accused of participation in a joint criminal enterprise between April 1 and December 31, 1992 in his capacity as Republika Srpska police minister.
Under the indictment, the objective of the criminal enterprise, which existed until the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995, was "to permanently remove and ethnically cleanse, by force or other means, Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and other non-Serbs from the territory of the planned Serbian state by the commission of the crimes alleged".
The accused flew to The Hague accompanied by ministers Loncar and Matijasevic.
Glas Javnost daily today quoted Stanisic as saying before departure that he would plead not guilty and that he was "ready for The Hague".