Washington (CNN) The United States sided with Russia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait over the weekend at a global climate summit to contest language supporting a landmark climate report on limiting global warming.

Countries at the COP24 summit in Poland were asked to "welcome" the report put out by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , which says governments around the world must take "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" to avoid disastrous levels of global warming.

The US and the three other nations voted against "welcoming" the measure.

"The United States was willing to note the report and express appreciation to the scientists who developed it, but not to welcome it, as that would denote endorsement of the report," the State Department said in a statement. "As we have made clear in the IPCC and other bodies, the United States has not endorsed the findings of the report."

A State Department spokesperson said that the US response was not "pre-discussed" with the three other nations.

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