Lithuanian President: Working relations with Poland very good while political cooperation can wait

"Our relations, especially working relations, i.e., in the areas of economy, commerce, the implementation of common projects, are very good, and I would even say, more effective than before, when top political relations were better," the president told the IQ magazine.

"I am very glad about that and I think that we have to cooperate in the areas where we don’t have disagreements. Our interests within NATO, in the negotiations on the EU fiscal discipline match. I see no strategic, deep disagreements," the Lithuanian leader said.

According to Grybauskaitė, disagreements between Lithuania and Poland "are taking place on the level of ambitions of individual politicians."

"It's not for the benefit of both states as by pushing around and arguing we look bad in the eyes of the international community. But improvement of our relations depends on mutual understanding and political will. If we cannot find political will at the top level, then real cooperation should be continued in the areas we can agree on. And where we can't, we can wait a bit," the president said.

Lithuanian-Polish relations have been tense recently amid disagreements on ethnic minority issues.