Jakarta, Oct. 21 -- The 20

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ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC) and Its Related Meetings were convened in Makati City, the Philippines, and via videoconference, on 19-21 October 2026. The Meetings brought together AMMTC Leaders and their representatives from all ASEAN Member States, alongside their counterparts from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK). The Deputy Secretary-General of ASEAN for ASEAN Political-Security Community, H.E. Dato' Astanah Abdul Aziz, represented the ASEAN Secretariat at the Meetings.

Among the key outcomes of the 20

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AMMTC were the adoption of the First ASEAN Regional Trafficking in Persons Report, marking ASEAN's first regional, ASEAN-led and consensus-based reporting mecha...