DUSHANBE, May 23 (RIA Novosti) - Croatian President Stepan Mesic will pay an official two-day visit to Tajikistan on Saturday, a spokesman for the Tajik Foreign Ministry said.

"During the visit Stepan Mesic is scheduled to meet with [Tajik] President Emomali Rakhmon on Sunday," Davlat Nazriyev said adding that the presidents will also take part in the talks at an extended level and sign a number of bilateral agreements.

The diplomat added that the Croatian president is also scheduled to meet with the country's prime minister and the speaker of the parliament's lower house and will pay a visit to State Unitary enterprise Tajik Aluminium Company (TALCO).

According to the State Statistics Committee, trade between Croatia and Tajikistan amounted to $779,000 in the first quarter of this year, while the figure for the 2008 totaled $6.4 million.