The chaotic scenes at the entrance to the United Nations Climate Conference at the Bella Center continue today with people waiting hours to get through an apparently undermanned U.N. accreditation system.

The congestion caused by the thousands trying to get into the summit caused Danish police to call for a second day of temporary closure of the Bella Center metro station.

Although Denmark is host for the summit, accreditation is in the hands of the United Nations.

“The bottleneck is in the accreditation system. But there’s not much we can do as you can’t move the system around,” says Danish Foreign Ministry Head of Department Svend Olling who has been involved in logistics for the meeting.

The foreign ministry has offered the United Nations Danish personnel to alleviate the problem, and suggested that accreditation desks stay open longer than 6 p.m., at which time yesterday there were still major queues.

But the U.N. has declined the offer of help.

“So at the moment we have 10 people walking around the queues telling them about the situation and offering tea and coffee. That’s all we can do,” Olling says.

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen is somewhat ambivalent with the situation.

“On the one hand it’s positive that more are accredited than we have space for. It shows that there is a great interest in the summit. But it’s the U.N.’s admission system. We’ve offered to help. As it is now, it’s not good enough,” Løkke Rasmussen says.

The United Nations has not been available for comment on the situation and what can be done to improve admissions, although it did send out a news release yesterday apologising for the long waiting times.

On Monday, some waited up to nine hours in the cold, others gave up waiting.