ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC) was established in 1997 and meets annually. The Ministers of ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea responsible or combating transnational crime, convened the First ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (AMMTC+3) in Bangkok on 10 January 2004, recalling the proposal of China during the Sixth ASEAN Plus Three Summit, which suggested the ASEAN Plus Three process be expanded to include regional political and security issues such as the fight against terrorism and transnational crime, and that the Leaders supported the convening of the ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Meeting on non-traditional security issues.