Bosnian Justice Minister Barisa Colak said on Wednesday that a plea for the extradition of retired Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina General Jovan Divjak was forwarded to Austria earlier today.
Divjak was released from extradition custody in Vienna on bail yesterday.
Colak told Bosnian media he signed the plea in the morning and that the Bosnian Foreign Ministry forwarded it to the Austrian judiciary.
He expects a "quick response" but said it was difficult to assume when it would be given.
A motion for Divjak's extradition was filed by the Bosnian State Prosecutor's Office earlier this week with the explanation that it had previously launched an investigation into the Dobrovoljacka Street case, in which Divjak has also been accused by the Serbian judiciary.
The spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office, Boris Grubesic, said Divjak was deposed several times about what happened in Sarajevo's Dobrovoljacka Street on 3 May 1992, when a number of people were killed in a clash between Bosnia's territorial defence units and the former Yugoslav People's Army.
Grubesic said Divjak had always been available to the investigators, which made it unnecessary to request that he be placed in custody.
Divjak has to remain in Austria until the extradition proceedings are over. He was released on EUR 500,000 bail, posted by the Bosnian authorities, on Tuesday. The money was ensured by Sarajevo Canton.
Divjak was arrested at the Vienna airport last Thursday on an international warrant issued by Serbia.
