BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/08/2006

Belarus-Russia Union budget to be discussed in late September

MINSK. Aug 24 (Interfax) - The Belarus-Russia Union government may approve a draft union budget for 2007 at the end of September, head of the Union's Permanent Committee's Minsk mission Vasily Sholodonov said on Thursday.

"The draft budget needs be discussed by the Union government, submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly and the Supreme State Council, and approved before the end of this year," he said.

The 2007 budget will amount to 3.6 billion Russian rubles, he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11577423