The course - which connects perfectly to the implementation of the Protocol - aims to train local experts from the Sava River Basin, involved in sediment management.
It also establishes a 12 member Intergovernmental Committee to oversee the implementation of the Second Protocol and de facto the Convention.
The discussions will seek to advance the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, which effectively expires in 2012, leaving the world with a weak, and mostly disparate set of climate change policies.
In a statement the Council said it "notes with deep regret that Turkey, despite repeated calls, continues refusing to fulfil its obligation of full, non-discriminatory implementation of the Additional Protocol" - a reference to the Turkish boycott of customs arrangements with Cyprus.
Cyprus was elected as a member of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Second Protocol of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict for the period 2007-2011 and contributed substantially in drafting the guidelines for the implementation of the Second Protocol.
Climate experts and environmental officials from 180 countries are currently meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to agree on a work plan for implementation of the 1997 Kyoto protocol, signed by developed countries in Japan last December.
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
Costin argues that the the protocol needs to be fixed now, before more money is poured into its implementation, or before its security vulnerabilities lead to real-world problems.
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Within the implementation of the Framework Agreement on the Sava River Basin (FASRB), the Sava countries drafted the Protocol on Sediment Management to the FASRB, to provide a legal basis for future cooperation of the countries on the development of the Sediment Management Plan for the Sava River Basin (Sava SM Plan).
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