Announcing his country's continued support to Croatia's integration with the EU, Adamkus said it was important for small countries to join the EU in the largest possible number and make their voice heard.
Apart from Croatia's integration with the EU, also discussed was its bid to enter NATO, which Lithuania fully supports. The two presidents also talked about economic relations, with Mesic saying that the two countries could be satisfied with the character of bilateral relations, but not with the pace of their development or scope, particularly in the economy.
In the first ten months of 2006 trade between Croatia and Lithuania amounted to a mere 14 million dollars, of which Croatian exports accounted for five million.
The lack of interest in doing business with Lithuania is evident in the Croatian business community. Although such a possibility had been announced, a Croatian-Lithuanian business forum was not organised during Mesic's visit. The Croatian president said he hoped that there would be more activity in that sector in the future.
President Adamkus said he hoped that bilateral agreements on cooperation in culture and tourism, signed after the meeting with Mesic, would help strengthen overall bilateral relations as well as personal contacts between Croatians and Lithuanians.
Last year 15,000 Lithuanians visited Croatia and their number increases every year.
The Lithuanian president proposed holding a meeting of the Baltic Charter countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) and the Adriatic Charter countries (Croatia, Macedonia and Albania), which the Croatian president accepted in principle. The meeting may be held in Vilnius as early as next year.
Mesic, the first Croatian president to visit Lithuania, took the opportunity to thank Lithuania for being one of the first countries to recognise Croatia and send its troops within a UN mission to the formerly war-affected eastern Slavonia, as well as for its continued support to Croatia's efforts to join Euro-Atlantic associations.