Djedovic Handanovic: Serbia to keep developing strategic cooperation with Japan

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic thanked Japan's outgoing ambassador to Belgrade Akira Imamura for his efficient cooperation during his tenure in Serbia and wished him much success in his professional and private endeavours in the future.

Japan will remain a country with which Serbia will be developing strategic cooperation in the energy sector, Djedovic Handanovic posted on Instagram.

"I thanked Japan's outgoing Ambassador to Serbia Akira Imamura for his efficient cooperation during his tenure since energy has been one of the central topics in the cooperation between our two states in the past two and a half years," she wrote in the post.

She noted that two major desulphurisation units at the TENT A and TENT B coal-fired power plants had been completed in collaboration with Japanese financiers and companies, and added that the units were very important for environmental protection.

The minister said work on securing the funding for the Bistrica reversible hydropower plant had begun and that substantial progress had been made but that there was space to accelerate the processes, and added that she had asked the ambassador that the Japanese side did so.