Economy

Ukrainian premier promises to local authorities to boost budget expenses in 2010

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that expenses of rural and town budgets in 2010 would stand at UAH 11.2 billion, according to a draft bill on the national budget for 2010.

She gave the information at a constituent congress of the All-Ukraine association of village and town councils held in Kyiv on Saturday.

"The next budget of 2010 would account for 12,032 [local] budgets and they all would be planned under requirements... expenses of rural and town budgets would grow by 68.5%, to UAH 11.2 billion," she said.

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