Speaker confident that bill on national budget for 2013 not to be submitted to parliament by this weekend

11:49, 20.11.2012 1 min read

Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn has said that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will not submit a draft law on the national budget for 2013 this week.

"Taking into account work on the national budget for 2013, [the draft] will not be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada this week," he said at a meeting of the conciliatory council of heads of factions and parliamentary committees held in Kyiv on Monday.

"The issue is this: Should we discuss these 126 issues [of the agenda], or should we define top-priority issues... consider them and then direct our efforts to the last session of the present parliament on December 4?" he added.

He said that if necessary, an extraordinary session of the Ukrainian parliament could be called to consider the draft national budget for 2013.