At a meeting held on 2 July with the chairman of the Committee on Defence and Security, Dragan Sutanovac, First Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Belgrade, Satoru Kurokawa, expressed his country’s readiness to provide technical and professional assistance and so contribute to the reform of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia. He proposed that Japan and our country should establish co-operation in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking.

It was agreed to specify types and forms of assistance which are a priority for the Serbian Ministry of the Interior. Sutanovac and Kurokawa agreed that assistance was the most urgently needed for counter-terrorism units, as well as for those engaged in combating organised crime.