A treaty due to replace the Kyoto Protocol will not satisfy Russia if it obliges only developed countries to cut emissions of greenhouse gases, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.

The 15th UN climate change conference, a result of two-year international talks on a binding treaty to cut global carbon emission, began in the Danish capital of Copenhagen on Monday.

Oleg Shamanov, who heads the ministry's department of global environmental problems, said although the conference had just started, there were already signs of disagreements between the negotiating parties.

"Disagreements in the positions of developing and developed countries are especially obvious," Shamanov said.

He said that "developing countries vigorously refuse to undertake any binding obligations", adding that they were demanding that developed states undertake additional obligations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases after 2012, while refusing to cut their own emissions.

Shamanov said Russia seeks to reach a "common, universal, international binding agreement", which would include all climate-related issues and involve all countries. The world's main carbon gases emitters, either developed, such as U.S., or developing, such as India, China and Brazil, should be involved in the agreement, he said.

A new international document intended to replace the Kyoto Protocol, some elements of which expire in 2012, is widely expected to be agreed during the talks in the Danish capital.

However, some experts believe the summit is more likely to just outline principles and directions for a post-Kyoto framework.

The conference, which puts together about 15,000 participants from 192 countries, will run until December 18.

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti)