PARLAMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN HAS ACCEPTED BUDGET-2000

/IRBIS, Nov.05, 99/ According to REUTERS, which cites the Prime Minister Kasymzhomart Tokaev, Parliament of Kazakhstan has accepted the budget- 2000. 36 persons in Senate and 55 persons in Mazhilis have voted for the budget, one has abstained. The budget-2000 incomes is determined in a volume of 286.4 billion tenges, charges including crediting - 404.08 billion tenges. The budget deficiency should make 63.8 billion tenges, or 3% from GDP. The deputies have left without changes main budget parameters, offered by the former government and approved on the first reading in the end of September. Budget-2000 is calculated at the rate of 157 tenge for $1 subject to 9% of inflation. GDP is planned to be 2,128.0 billion tenges ($13.6 billion). Head of Mazhilis Budget and Finance Committee Karatai Turysov has told that deputies and the government have agreed on the social block and have redistribute a means inside the budget remained beyond its authorized limits incomes and not reducing pensions and invalids aid.