Djedovic Handanovic: Sanctions on NIS will not cause energy crisis

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Monday Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's discussion with Gazprom Neft Managing Board Chairman Alexander Dyukov had been sincere, open and constructive, and added that people had no reason to worry and that there would be no energy crisis in Serbia following the entry into force of US sanctions on Serbia's Russian-majority owned oil company NIS.

"We will continue discussions and keep working on getting to a solution. There will be no energy crisis," Djedovic Handanovic said.

When you are talking to partners, it is important to seek constructive solutions, and Serbia has always been a good host to investors, she said.

"In your relations with partners, you must be sincere, you must be transparent and you must seek constructive solutions. This issue is not an easy one. It has nothing to do with Serbia. The sanctions that have been imposed have not been imposed because of Serbia, or because of, or against, the government in Serbia. They have been imposed because of Russia and because of the relations between America and Russia," the minister said.