Brussels  - The European Union and China will meet in a summit before the end of June, EU officials said on Friday, two months after Beijing scrapped a top-level meeting in protest at EU leaders' meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

EU leaders agreed with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao during talks in Brussels that "the eleventh EU-China Summit should be convened as soon as possible under the Czech Presidency of the EU," a statement from the European Commission, the EU's executive, said.

The Czech Republic took over the EU's rotating presidency on January 1 and is set to hand it over to Sweden on July 1.

After the meeting, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that the summit would most probably take place in Prague in May, the CTK news agency reported.

EU-China relations hit a sudden chill in late November when Wen pulled out of a planned summit to protest a meeting between French President Nicolas Sarkozy - then holder of the EU's rotating presidency - and the Dalai Lama.

Friday's talks touched on questions of human rights and Tibet in a "constructive spirit," commission head Jose Manuel Barroso said.

At the meeting, the two sides signed deals valued at close on 60 million euros (78 million dollars) covering issues such as student exchanges, civil aviation, clean energy and the fight against intellectual piracy. (dpa)