Venturing into defend and military cooperation
Security cooperation in ASEAN and the Asia Pacific was led by foreign affairs officials which defend official may attend some of security meetings but there was no regular meeting for ASEAN defend ministers until 2006. The move to have ASEAN defense cooperation was expedited resulting the establishment of ASEAN Defense Minister's meeting (ADMm) in 2006. ADMM regarded in realization of the ASC. In 2007, ASEAN decided to move forward the formation of the ASC for ASEAN community. At the same time ADMM approved a concept paper n having ADMM-plus in order to engage its dialogue partners. ADMM meets annually while the ADMM-plus meet biennially, it seem that the ASEAN defense Minister are prepared to have not only formal meeting with all dialogue partners in ADMM plus but also informal meetings with the individual dialogue partner.