Japan-Serbia Relations

September 27, 2024

Basic Data

Japanese Nationals in Serbia:

260 (as of October 2023)

Trade with Japan in 2023:

  • Japan's export: 6.93 billion yen (rubber products, chemical products, yarns for textiles etc.)
  • Japan's import: 53.5 billion yen (tobacco, clothes, fruits・vegetable etc.)

Japan's Bilateral Economic Cooperation:

  • List of Exchange of Notes
  • Yen Credit: 28.25 billion yen
  • Grant Aid: 23.23 billion yen (including aid for Kosovo and Montenegro before their independence)
  • Technical Cooperation: 6.63 billion yen (ditto)

VIP Visits

From Japan to Serbia
Year Name
July 2001 Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka
April 2005 Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Itsunori Onodera
May 2005 Senior ViceMinister of Finance Ryotaro Tanose
May 2006 Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Akiko Yamanaka
May 2009 Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Yasutoshi Nishimura
September 2012 Parliamentary Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Ryuji Yamane
December 2013 Parliamentary Senior Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobuo Kishi
July 2014 Senior Vice-Minister of the Cabinet Office Yasutoshi Nishimura
December 2015 State Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoji Muto
December 2017 State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kazuyuki Nakane
January 2018 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
October 2018 Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Kenji Yamada
April 2019 Special Advisor to Prime Minister of Japan Kentaro Sonoura
July 2019 State Minister for the Environment Minoru Kiuchi
August 2019 Foreign Minister Taro Kono
April 2024 Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs Yasushi Hosaka
July 2024 Minister for Foreign Affairs Yoko Kamikawa
From Serbia to Japan
Year Name
February 2001 Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
May 2003 Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic
April 2004 Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic, Minister of International Economic Relations Branko Lukovac
November 2007 Mining and Energy Minister Aleksandar Popovic
April 2009 Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic
October 2009 Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic
March 2011 the President of the Republic of Serbia Boris Tadic, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic
November 2011 the Speaker of the Serbian Parliament Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic
October 2012 Finance and Economy Minister Mladjan Dinkic
October 2019 Prime Minister Ana Brnabić
January 2020 Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Mladen SARCEVIC
June 2024 Minister of Domestic and Foreign Trade Tomislav Momirović, Minister of Science, Technological Development and Innovation Jelena Begović, Minister of Economy Adrijana Mesarović
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