Brussels, 02/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for Kaliningrad, MP Dimitry Rogozin, was in Brussels on Monday evening for a meeting with the Danish Presidency and Commissioner Chris Patten (External Affairs) and Günter Verheugen (Enlargement) to discuss major issues in the future of the Russian enclave after EU enlargement such as transit and visas. At present, the two sides are diametrically opposed in their views. The European Commission is insisting that in line with the Schengen Agreement, Russians wanting to travel through Lithuania or Poland to reach Kaliningrad (or vice versa) will have to have a valid visa (but the Commission is prepared to facilitate the actual granting of the visas as far as possible and cut down on administrative procedures); while Russia finds this unacceptable and a violation of human rights if the EU demands that Russian citizens get a visa for travelling from one part of their own country to another, even if that means having to travel through an enlarged Europe in the future. Moscow feels that the Schengen Agreement contains enough "flexibility" to allow visas to not be required subject to certain specific conditions (corridors, etc). Last week, Putin went even further in a letter to the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, and EU heads of state and government , when he called for a radical solution to the Kaliningrad problem, namely the eventual scrapping of any visa obligations between Russia and the EU. The Commission has not yet officially reacted to this proposal, but a spokesperson hoped on Monday that Russia would not simply describe long-term objectives, but would also show "flexibility" with regard to the short-term system, in order words, by the date scheduled for enlargement (2004).