Participants in the meeting from the Russian side included the State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma on Federal and Regional Policy and Co-Chairman of the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Andrey Klimov, Director of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vladimir Voronkov. Participants from the European Union side included the Head of the European Union Delegation to Russia Fernando Valenzuela, Head of the Cabinet of the President of the European Parliament Maciej Popowski, Chief Diplomatic Adviser Alexandre Stutzmann, Head of the Political Section of the European Union Delegation to Russia Gavin Evans, spokeswoman of the President of the European Parliament Inga Rosinska, and Diplomatic Adviser Arnoldas Pranckevicius.