Rada adopts 2017 budget, 274 MPs vote for

09:17, 21.12.2016 1 min read

Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada has passed the national budget for 2017, 274 Members of Parliament voted for the document.

Commenting on the adoption of the document, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said that his government had closely been cooperating with the parliament to prepare the national budget.

"Together, we've started an absolutely fair process of forming the Ukrainian budget for 2017. We tabled it in parliament on time, it passed the first reading, we worked with the Ukrainian parliament's factions to work out the best solution for 2017," Groysman said at a plenary meeting in parliament.

He described the budged as a "human-oriented" document.

"We'll cover defense expenses, we'll support the agrarian sector, we'll raise the salaries of teachers by 50% and of doctors by 30%. We'll allocate funds for medicines, we'll provide long-term care patients with free medicines," he said.

"You'll be the witnesses of large-scale decentralization," he summed up.