Vice PM Kubiv: Draft national budget to be submitted to VR until September 15

Ukrainian First Vice Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv says that the Cabinet of Ministers will submit a draft state budget for 2017 until September 15.

“I'd like to assure [on behalf of] the prime minister of Ukraine, the government that the government will do everything needed for the draft state budget for 2017 be registered in the parliament in line with the regulations – until September 15,” Kubiv said at a meeting of the Agenda Setting Council on Monday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

He also added that among main priorities of the budget for the next year are defense capacity, the continuation of decentralization, road network restoration, the development of industry, agrarian sector, and energy efficiency, support for small farmers, education, and medicine.

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