The 20th Annual Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering held recently in Colombo with the participation of 408 representatives from 41 member countries and 24 international observer organizations.

Institutional requirements for monitoring of the effective implementation and enforcement of the law against money laundering and the financing of terrorism were taken up for discussion at the Summit. Furthermore, the discussion was also focused on granting technical assistance to the member countries for successful achievement of the said objectives.