PM Yulia Tymoshenko summons Parliament to consider State Budget changes before recess

A special session of the Cabinet of Ministers started which concerns the issues of amending the State Budget 2008. As Tymoshenko announced at the beginning of the sitting, a week ago the Government has signed a memorandum with the National Bank on the coordinated macro-indices of the state budget. Today, according to her, there is a need to balance the expenses of the budget and agree on their correct, conceptual distribution, as the Cabinet’s press service reports.

Yulia Tymoshenko said the Government is ready to approve the decisions regarding changes into the budget and get down to consultations with the President of Ukraine, members of democratic coalition and with the profile parliamentary committees. The Prime Minister also said the Government would insist that the Verkhovna Rada endorses changes to the state budget the following week, before recess.