Russia sharply criticizes organization of climate summit

Fri, 18 Dec 2009

Moscow/Copenhagen - The adviser to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on climate matters sharply criticized the organizers of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen on Friday, calling the event one of the "most unsuccessful meetings at the highest level" ever. Arkadi Dvorkovich was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying that "unfortunately the organization (of the summit) is such that an agreement simply cannot be achieved."

According to Dvorkovich, Medvedev himself criticized the poor preparation of documents for the heads of state and government.

"Basically, the leaders here themselves had to write the text and edit it as well," Russian adviser said.