Groysman says 2017 budget resolution almost ready

Work over the 2017 budget resolution is nearing completion, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.

"The budget resolution is almost ready," he said at a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

He said that the document would be considered by the government's budget committee on Thursday.

First Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv said that the government's budget committee he heads would consider the draft budget resolution on June 9.

Work on the document continued in the past month.

"Many proposals from the related committees and Verkhovna Rada committees have been taken into consideration," Kubiv said.