Japan will host a two-day ministerial meeting in April in Tokyo to promote stability and boost the economy of the western Balkans, according to Zlatan Milosevic, visiting director of the Serbian Investment and Export Promotion Agency.

"The focus will be to bring this area closer together to the people of Japan and Japanese businesses," Milosevic, 35, told The Japan Times in an interview this week.

He said it is also aimed at involving the European Union and United States in the western Balkan region, which encompasses Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Albania and Serbia-Montenegro.