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Response from the secretary-general of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to a letter from the Global Compact Office.

In his reply to the Global Compact Office, ISO's secretary-general Robert Steele says that he views as "unfortunate" that the Office wishes there not be any mention of the Compact in the ISO 26000 standard. According to Mr. Steele, the current draft of the standard is "at least consistent with the ten universal principles" of the Compact. He also states that the Global Compact Office has been involved in different levels of the working group that is drafting the standard, and that the Office has "indeed been able to contribute and indicate [its] perspectives on the evolution of this ISO standard."