state visit to Kenya, during which he paid a visit to Mombasa 's historic Fort Jesus museum.Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula had earlier said that the visit would help expand bilateral cooperation between the two countries."Kenya has very strong ties with Iran. They are our key markets for tea and we expect to further this by signing several bilateral agreements during President Ahmadinejad's visit to Kenya," Wetangula told journalists.President Ahmadinejad, who was paying his first official visit to Kenya, was accompanied by a delegation of more than 100 officials and private businessmen.He was later expected visit Comoros and Djibouti.The invitation to the Iranian leader was extended personally by President Mwai Kibaki when the two held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last September."We expect to sign agreement on water, capacity building and trade. We will also sign agreements on bilateral air services, tourism, energy and in areas of avoidance of double taxation among others," the minister said."We have had very advanced consultations with Iran on beef exports and fishery products," Wetangula said.The value of Kenyan exports to Iran stands at 55 million U.S. dollars according to the latest figures.Sources said the two governments have indicated plans to set up a new shipping line between the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas and Mombasa, establishing an Iranian trade center in Nairobi and opening a branch of an Iranian bank in the Kenyan capital.Iran exports industrial oils, carpets and chemicals to Kenya and mostly imports Kenyan tea.Already, Iran has a factory assembling tractors for Uganda, and it hopes to build a similar one in Kenya.