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News ID: 69562
Publish Date : 21 August 2019 - 21:30

Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan Region to Further Broaden Trade Ties

TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Senior Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan region officials in a meeting in Sulaimaniyeh have conferred on ways to further develop trade and economic relations and cooperation between the two sides.
The meeting was held between Iran's Consul-General to Sulaimaniyah Mehdi Shoushtari and the governor of Sulaimaniyah.
During the meeting, both sides stressed the importance of developing bilateral ties and the ways to boost economic and trade relations.
Sulaimaniyah governor, for his part, referred to profound relations between Iran and the Iraqi Kurdistan region, specially with Sulaimaniyah, mainly in cultural, geographical and historical fields.
He called for taking advantage of cultural commonalities in line with fulfilling bilateral interests.
Meanwhile, Shushtari expressed happiness over the level of trade and cultural relations between two sides.
He also expressed Iran’s readiness for developing ties in various fields. 
Shoushtari also held a meeting with chancellor of Sulaimaniyah University, and underlined the importance of developing academic and scientific relations and cooperation. 
Implementing the MoUs between the Iranian and Sulaimaniyah universities and reinforcing Persian Language course in Sulaimaniyah University were among other topics discussed between the two sides.