Mr. İhsan Övüt, SMIIC Secretary General and his accompanying delegation paid a courtesy visit to the headquarters of the South Asian Regional Standards Organization (SARSO) in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 04 May 2018 and met Mr. Indu Bikram Joshi, Director SARSO and the Deputy Directors Mr. Tashi Wangchuk and Mr. Khawja Gulam Mohiuddin.

The visit focused on cooperation between two institutions with regards to the issues of common interest. In this regard, both parties agreed to proceed for signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the objective of enhancing transparency and promoting cooperation between SARSO and SMIIC.

It was a fruitful meeting where both parties had useful and extensive exchange of views on different international and regional issues of common interest in standardization field.