1. We, the Ministers of ASEAN Member States and Japan responsible for handling transnational crime matters, convened the Third ASEAN Plus Japan Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime (3^rd AMMTC + Japan) Consultation on 21 September 2017 in Manila, Philippines. The Meeting was co-chaired by H.E. Dato Hamdan Abu Bakar, Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office of Brunei Darussalam and H.E. Hachiro Okonogi, Minister of State, Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission of Japan.

2. We took note of the outcomes of the Fourteenth ASEAN Plus Japan Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crime(14^th SOMTC + Japan) Consultation held in Vientiane, Lao PDR on 25 May 2017 and the Preparatory SOMTC + Japan for the 3^rd AMMTC + Japan Consultation in Manila, Philippines, on 18 September 2017.

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