On the morning of June 17, 2002, President Jiang Zemin met with Lithuanian Parliament Chairman Arturas Paulauskas at the Lithuanian parliamentary building.

Paulauskas said that President Jiang's visit is a major event in the Lithuania-China relations and proves that China attaches importance to the friendly cooperative relations with Lithuania. He believed Jiang's visit will further increase the mutual understanding between the two countries and promote their mutually beneficial cooperation.

Jiang said that his visit to Lithuania, short as it is, is a well-rounded one. The Lithuanian people's hospitality and their friendly feelings towards the Chinese people impressed him deeply. Since the two countries forged diplomatic relations 10 years ago, bilateral ties have gained rapid progress, with close high-level contacts and increasingly deepened cooperation in politics, economy, culture, education and jurisdiction. Jiang said that he had held a fruitful talk with President Adamkus. They reached important consensus on the further development of bilateral relations and exchanged views on international issues of common concern. As a result, mutual understanding and traditional friendship were deepened. Jiang also said that China set store by the development of relations with Lithuania and is ready to make joint efforts with Lithuania to the end of developing and deepening bilateral friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Jiang said that both the National People's Congress of China and the parliament of Lithuania are legislative bodies of respective countries. Exchanges between them constitute an important part in bilateral political relations. In the recent years exchanges between them are quite active, friendly groups in the two parliaments have exchangedl visits and various committees under the two parliaments have maintained contacts. He welcomes more Lithuanian members of parliament to visit China so as to increase the mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples.

Paulauskas said he totally agrees with Jiang's positive comment on exchanges between the two parliaments and reiterated that the parliament of Lithuania observes the One China policy, attaches great importance to developing relations with China and is willing to push forward bilateral relations in the 21th century.