"Russia will not support the current text," Mr. Arbatov said.
"With the current text, it seems that mercury use in [mining] may go on indefinitely".
The current text that is being discussed contains … the same positions that have been around for ages.
But a week ago, the State Department announced that the "document being negotiated has gone from bad to worse, and the current text of the draft outcome document is not salvageable.
The current text has the essential foundations for a more effective council, with better tools to react swiftly to grave or chronic human rights violations.
"The Kyoto Protocol is really two different things -- it's the current text and numbers, and it's a process," he said.
Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research in Britain said the current text was "somewhere between dangerous and deadly" for the most vulnerable nations in the world.
Roy Isbister, Saferworld's head of arms transfer controls, added: "The loopholes in the current text could actually make things worse, by giving legal cover to bad practice.
"A response to a current text message can even be managed given a simple virtual keyboard configuration across the face of the flexible display".
Phones with little memory left sometimes go haywire when a picture message is sent, erasing all the current text logs in that phone.
