DUSHANBE, March 7 - President Viktor Yanukovych will make a two-day official visit to Tajikistan on March 17-18, a spokesperson for the Tajik Foreign Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.

"The official visit of Yanukovych to Dushanbe is scheduled for March 17-18," the spokesperson said.

"Yanukovych and Tajik President Emomalii Rahmon will hold bilateral talks in a close and expanded format, as a result of which a set of documents on economic, cultural and educational cooperation of the two countries is to be signed," the spokesperson said.