Due to the importance of youths in social and leadership development, it was decided that the role of youths was to be further highlighted to greater prominence. The ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Youth (AMMY) was structured to act as the higher level body to resolve the common social problems among the youths of ASEAN member countries.

In conjunction with the AMMY, the 8th of August was also commemorated as the ASEAN Youth Day (AYD). Since then, the commemoration of AYD has been held in each of the member countries every year by rotation.

AMMY is now part of the ASEAN institutional framework reporting to the ASEAN Heads of Government Meeting through the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting.