While it was critical to get major emitters to reduce their emissions, whether developed countries would take the lead and whether the strict firewall between Annex I and non-Annex I countries of the UNFCCC would remain in place, proved to be sticking points. At the end of very contentious negotiations, late on Friday evening, 18 December, the text of the Copenhagen Accord was released. The text had been negotiated by a small group of world leaders behind closed doors, and only indirectly based on the party-negotiated texts under the AWG-LCA or AWG-KP. This contributed to feelings that the negotiations were unfair and opaque, and the process looked to be on the verge of collapse.