Afghanistan and Sri Lanka Agree to Expand Cooperation on Standards and Quality

DID Press: Afghanistan’s Standards and Quality Authority and Sri Lanka’s standards institution have discussed expanding bilateral cooperation, exchanging technical expertise and strengthening laboratory capabilities during an online meeting.

Mullah Abdullah Haji Bashir, Director General of Afghanistan’s Standards and Quality Authority, highlighted the importance of joint cooperation in developing standards, conformity assessment and ensuring product quality.

Officials from the Sri Lanka Standards Institution also expressed their readiness to exchange technical experience and help pave the way for a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions.

The proposed cooperation is expected to focus on technical knowledge-sharing and improving institutional and laboratory capacities.