9 November 2007
Union State PA session to highlight draft budget for 2008
The 32nd session of the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) of the Belarus-Russia Union State scheduled for November 13-14 in Moscow will consist of two plenary sittings and meetings of profile commissions, BelTA learnt from the PA press service. The key issue on the agenda will be the draft budget of the Union State for 2008. At first, the document will be handled by the PA profile commissions. After a session of the PA Council, the deputies will give the budget its first reading. The first day of the session will end with a sitting of the conciliation commission on the Union State budget. On the second day the conciliation commission will hold another sitting. At the second plenary sitting the parliamentarians are set to adopt the budget in the final reading. Next year’s budget is expected to increase by 10% over this year. The parliamentarians will hear a report of the Union State Council of Ministers about the performance of the budget in previous years and will consider several organizational matters.