Post-Kyoto Negotiations

I'm now in the meeting of the Contact Group on Potential Consequences for consideration in relation to Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol. I have text in front of my eyes (it's about 6 pages) and most of it is still in brackets. It's quite a boring meeting, I should say, there's a lot of arguing about the wordings and it doesn't seem like negotiations are moving any further. So far, almost no brackets have been lifted. The Parties couldn't decide, for example, on the bracket "[striving to minimize] [minimizing] the adverse impacts of mitigation actions is a common concern of both developing and developed countries".
The same talks about weak and strong formulations... Oh, well, the text is becoming even more red than before))

P.S. The Chair of the meeting was obviously quite obsessed with the fact that he is not dressed up (he was wearing a casual blue sweater) and mentioned at least twice that this is through the fault of SAS that lost his luggage))
P.P.S. Delegate from one of the parties asked the Chair to repeat the whole argumentation that led to one of the proposed wordings, saying that "we couldn't hear what you said because we were talking to each other"))