After meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Monday, the diplomat said that the meeting addressed a "new start" in the Lithuanian-Polish ties from 2013.
"The relations between both nations are fantastic, they're very good, no problems at all," Skolimowski told journalists after the meeting.
"I am diplomat and ambassador and my work with the previous government was very hard and very good in some ways because the economic figures are fantastic. This is not a simple answer. I think that some prejudices, sometimes from both sides, they are giving some problems to go straight on for the future. I think that this government's thinking is different," said the outgoing head of the Polish Embassy when asked about the causes behind deterioration of bilateral ties over the recent years.
"I started eight years ago with very good relations and I finish with very good relations," Skolimowski said.
Skolimowski took office in Vilnius in 2005 and should be shortly replaced by Jaroslaw Czubinski.
Pooling efforts for science
It might be easier for Lithuania and Poland to seek European Union (EU) funding for science together, Skolimowski believes.
"We should think about deepening of our science relations. You have very good scientists and science institutions, so do we in Poland. However, we are not using European funds to a sufficient degree, and I think it would be considerably easier, if we worked together," Skolimowski told Vilnius journalists after meeting with Lithuania's Prime Minister.
Lithuanian-Polish gas interconnection needs EU support
Lithuania and Poland are considering making a joint application for the European Union’s (EU) support for the bilateral gas interconnection project, outgoing Ambassador Skolimowski has said.
“… without support of the Commission, the project will not be so profitable. And the Prime Minister [Algirdas Butkevičius] is absolutely for that - to go together to Brussels with this project with us,” he told reporters.
He added that the project should be delivered in due time.
Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič said early in May that the energy conference due in Vilnius in November should bring some clarity about the prospects of getting EU support for the Lithuanian-Polish gas interconnection.
The gas interconnection between Lithuania and Poland is estimated to cost around 471 million euros.
