21.12.2017.
Revitalisation of Defence Cooperation with Japan
Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin met today a delegation of the Office for International Affairs of the Ministry of Defence of Japan, led by Vice-Minister of Defence for International Affairs Manabe Ro.
The visit from the Japanese delegation and today’s talks represent an impulse for revitalising and defining the contents and forms of future bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries. Minister Vulin stressed that the development of that cooperation should follow an upward development trend of the overall bilateral, economic and political relations. He thanked the Japanese Government and people for the economic assistance and donations rendered so far, of particularly humanitarian character and he pointed out that the Republic of Serbia highly appreciated the neutral position of Japan on the occasion of voting for admittance of the so called Kosovo to UNESCO.
It was mutually established that the focus of the future defence cooperation should be placed on military-to-military cooperation, chiefly in the form of exchange of experience and knowledge gained in peacekeeping operations, CBRN, prevention and elimination of effects of natural disasters and technical and technological accidents.
During its stay in Serbia, the Japanese delegation was briefed about the capabilities, products and developmental programmes of Serbian defence industry, as well as the capacities of the Simulation Training Centre of Training and Doctrine Department of the General Staff of the Serbian Armed Forces.
