But the first paragraph of the draft document reaffirms the final communiqué from Durban, where the United States and Israel walked out.
Media in China give full support to an official document reaffirming total control over Hong Kong, while papers in the special administrative region express pessimism over the future.
The conservative Christians are grinning, believing that the document somehow reaffirmed their bigotry.
Governments, including those of Pakistan, Iran and Malta (described to me as "the Trojan horse of the Holy See in the EU"), are not only objecting to phrases in the draft outcome document that reaffirm women's sexual and reproductive rights, but are going further by seeking to unpick the language of previous agreements such as the one made in Cairo.
Texas Republicans used the document to reaffirm support for the state and federal Defense of Marriage acts and to "oppose the assault on marriage by judicial activists".
The document dump only reaffirms the need for a more robust Congressional response to this mess.
In her keynote address, Pauline Maier, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of "Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788," described the ardent popular debate surrounding America's founding document — a talk that both reaffirmed the sense of ideas as drivers of history while challenging the notion that the ideas of the elite mattered most.
Last week the Guardian revealed documents that, among other things, reaffirmed the link between the troubled for-profit college sector and the controversial corporate advocacy group the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
The document, which the recent Beijing meetings reaffirmed, essentially endorses the Chinese negotiation position at last year's Copenhagen summit with a few Japanese caveats and clarifications.
The document stems from Agenda 21, recently reaffirmed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, and sets a goal of significantly improving the lives of at least 10% of the world's estimated 1 billion slum dwellers.
