The climate summit in Copenhagen has agreed and accepted a summary document, a Russian delegation member said on Saturday.
Oleg Shamanov said the UN climate summit decided to accept a political declaration on the summary of the summit.
"A procedural variant was found on how to recognize the conference's decisions in a political declaration by the heads of states and governments, which was prepared [on Friday]," Shamanov said.
Shamanov noted difficulties in agreeing the text during plenary sessions on Friday, saying that a number of countries had accused the group drawing up the document as doing so "secretly" without their participation. He said group was created openly and that all members at the summit could participate.
Alexei Kokorin, a representative from the World Wildlife Fund of Russia, said four countries in particular were obstructing the acceptance of the document: Nicaragua, Bolivia, Cuba and Venzuela. He said the countries were accusing other countries of not considering their opinions while preparing the political declaration.
According to Kokorin, the obstruction by the four countries was not entirely related to the conference's issues on climate and ecology, but more of a desire "to annoy the U.S.," in particular U.S. President Barack Obama, who was an active participant in creating the political declaration for the summit.
The 15th UN climate change conference December 7-18 was the result of two years of international talks on a binding treaty to cut global carbon emissions. The talks brought together about 15,000 participants from 192 countries.
Scientists have warned that the emissions cuts so far offered at the summit would fail to prevent a catastrophic rise in temperatures.
The Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding agreement restricting carbon emissions, expires in 2012. A new deal is needed to continue efforts beyond 2012.
The United States did not sign the original Kyoto Protocol.
Copenhagen, December 19 (RIA Novosti)
