Colak told the press that the two countries' expert teams would meet in the coming days to agree on interventions in the agreement for this purpose.
He added that this would help improve bilateral relations which have been strained in recent months by attempts of the Serbian judiciary to deal with alleged war crimes charges against Bosnian leaders in 1992 for some events in Sarajevo and Tuzla, and by the trial which has been conducted in Belgrade for two years against Bosnian Croat Ilija Jurisic on suspicion that he was responsible for attacks against the then Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) during its retreat from the northeastern city of Tuzla in the spring of 1992. Jurisic, a Bosnian citizen, was arrested at the Belgrade airport in May 2007 and since then has been kept in custody in Serbia.
Minister Colak said that Bosnia-Herzegovina insisted on being allowed to hold trials for its citizens and on dealing with all war crimes committed on its territory.
Serbia's Malovic said that the Serbian government was willing to discuss all the criminal proceedings which concern both countries.
She pledged that Serbia would arrest all war crimes indictees.
A new agreement on legal assistance should first be concluded by the justice ministries of the two countries and later by war crimes prosecutors.
She announced a regional conference on war crimes to be held in Serbia in September.