Medvedev to present Budgetary Message for 2012-'14 Wed.

MOSCOW, June 29 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on
Wednesday will sign and present a Budgetary Message -- the main document
relating to a budgetary policy for 2012-2-14, presidential aide Arkady
Dvorkovich announced.
"The Budgetary Message will be made public on Wednesday, June 29,"
Dvorkovich said. "This will be done in the form of (presentation) of the
main theses of the Budgetary Message for the Members of the
Government and the leadership of the Houses of the Federal Assembly," he
pointed out.
Unlike a Message to the Federal Assembly, which the President reads
out in full before the members of the government and parliament, a
Budgetary Message is presented by the Head of State briefly in the form of
head-notes prior to the publication of the full text of the document later
in the day.
The presidential aide said the Budgetary Message would summarize the
main assignments and work orientations that are prioritized at the present
moment for State administration bodies. They arise, in particular, from
the Magnitogorsk Theses--the assignments that the Head of State gave on
March 30 at a session of the Modernization Commission in Magnitogorsk and
on the strength of the results of the recent International economic forum
in St Petersburg.
"The themes include matters connected with budget expenditure
priorities, the decentralization of powers between authorities, a change
in (the rate of) insurance payments, as well as orientations of support
for the modernization of the Russian economy. Much attention is to be also
devoted to matters concerning the privatization of State property and
support for innovative entrepreneurship," Dvorkovich said.
The presidential aide pointed out that attention in the Budgetary
Message will be also drawn to a reform of the system of State purchases as
the main instrument for raising the effectiveness of State spending.
The present Budgetary Message will be a 12th one in the recent history
of Russia. The President of the Russian Federation every year must come
forward with two messages: one addressed to the Federal Assembly and read
out by the Head of State in person before the Parliament, and a budgetary
one, which he refers in a written form to the government and the
parliamentarians, reading out only the main theses.
The Budgetary Message is an integral element of the procedure for the
preparation of a Federal budget. It sets out strategic and short-term
planks of budgetary policy in the context of the general goals and tasks
of the economic policy of the State.
Last year Dmitry Medvedev also presented a Budgetary Message on June
29.