Just three days before the opening of ISO’s (International Organization for Standardization) annual General Assembly in Milan under the Presidency of Prof. Giacomo Elias, the Italian President Ciampi received the visit of ISO officials.
During the 40-minute audience, Ciampi said he was impressed by the global scope of ISO’s activities and its consensus building mechanisms as well as by the decentralized system that brings together several tens of thousands of experts from various components of the market and professional and scientific worlds
ISO is sometimes referred to as a mini-UN organization, said ISO President Elias, and indeed the structure of ISO’s membership (one member per country) can give that impression. However, ISO is, in fact, a non-governmental non-profit organization as is the case also for UNI (Ente Nazionale di Unificazione) in Italy.
ISO, he commented, is unique in several ways and one of these is that its members occupy a bridging position between the public and private sectors.
总统强调，ISO是一种独特的能把公众和各个独自的部门联系到一起的方法。
For the first time and at the invitation of the Italian member, UNI, the ISO General Assembly takes place in Milan. Some 400 delegates from national standards institutes of 130 countries meet for two days of intensive discussions and reporting.
The Milan Assembly, Elias declared, will be another step forward in the fundamental role that ISO, together with the World Trade Organization, can and must play in favour of transparent markets and globalization.
