Matic was speaking to the press after meetings between Serbian and Croatian delegations and Presidents Ivo Josipovic of Croatia and Tomislav Nikolic of Serbia and after his meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic.
He said he was given firm assurances that Serbia would do all that was legally possible to solve the Maric case, since he is facing another trial in Serbia.
"At President Tomislav Nikolic's suggestion, it has been agreed that both justice ministries will appoint the people who will handle the Maric case so that he can be transferred to Croatia," said Matic.
He confirmed that the two sides agreed that in the meantime Maric should be transferred from a prison near Belgrade to another penitentiary in Sremska Mitrovica.
Maric, a former member of Croatia's National Guard Corps, was arrested on the Serbian-Bulgarian border in 2010 and was sentenced by Belgrade's war crimes court to 12 years' imprisonment for the killing of civilians in Grubisno Polje, Croatia in October 1991. In March 2012, a Belgrade appellate court upheld the sentence, dismissing Maric's appeal as unfounded. Last December, he complained to the Croatian authorities about having been tried in Serbia and the sentence he was given.
His attorney Djordje Dozet told Hina last April that communication existed between the relevant Serbian and Croatian ministries expected to result in a decision to extradite Maric to Croatia to serve the sentence and to end the court proceedings against him in Serbia.