Parliament approves 2010 state budget

SANA'A, Dec. 26 (Saba)- Headed by Speaker of the parliament Yahya al-Ra'ai, the Parliament approved on Saturday the draft of the
2010 state budget presented by the cabinet.

The approval came after long- serious discussion by members of the parliament
within a report presented by a special committee formed from the parliament to
study the draft.
In the session, the deputy prime minister for economic affairs and minister of
planning and international cooperation Abdul Kareem al-Arhabi announced obligation
of the
cabinet with recommendations of the parliament over the draft.Government approves
2010 budget draft On November, the cabinet approved the state budget draft at local
and
central levels and budgets drafts of economic and independent units and the private
funds budgets for 2010 at sum of more than YR2.7 trillion,while the surplus of the
productive
public sector units' current activity for the same year has been estimated at over
YR149.7 billion including YR89.7 billion which is the government's share from the
total
surplus.
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