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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An Iranian Kurdish delegation led by the governor of Sanandaj said in Erbil on Thursday that they were here to seek stronger trade ties between both provinces, stating that they were ready to buy wheat from Kurdish farmers as a start to business exchange.“In Sanandaj province we are ready to buy the wheat product of the Kurdistan Region, turn it to flour and send it back,” Abolohammed Zahidi, governor Sanandaj (Sina) said at a press conference.Zahidi said Sanandaj does not have a history of or the need to import wheat from abroad, adding however, that due to this year’s surplus of wheat in the Kurdistan Region due to good rains, they could “buy the wheat and return it here or to any other country in the form of flour.”Zahidi. who met with Erbil governor Nawzad Hadi and Kurdish interior minister Karim Sinjari, said that he and his counterparts had discussed strengthening trade ties, agricultural and industrial exchanges as well as technical, medical and tourism cooperation.The governor of Iran’s biggest Kurdish populace said that his province boasts good medical and pharmaceutical services, urging people in the Kurdistan Region to choose Sanandaj as their preferred destination for medical treatment.“Many patients from the Kurdistan Region go to Tehran to seek medical help which costs a lot and they have to travel far, so in Sanandaj we are ready to welcome these patients,” Zahidi said.At the press conference the two governors said they had prepared the text of a proposed deal on areas of trade, business and cultural ties to be signed by both sides.The Kurdistan Region has at least four official border crossings and customs zone with Iran, all but one of them in Sulaimani province.Zahidi added that he was in Erbil to increase trade exchange between his province and Erbil, admitting that “there has been a decrease in business exchange between the two in recent years.”