President Vladimir Putin met with President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso.
The meeting resulted in steps being taken to bring the respective positions of Russia and the EU closer together on some of the most complex issues facing the two sides.
Specialists from both sides are currently completing a negotiation process that has lasted many months on drawing up a roadmap for the four common spaces that Russia and the EU will build together.
The documents for forming four common spaces in the areas of the economy, justice, external security and science are to be signed at the Russia-EU summit in Moscow on May 10, 2005.