Belarus parliament to focus on broader ties with RF, 2012 budget.

MINSK, October 3 (Itar-Tass) -- A broader partnership with Russia and
a republican budget for 2012 will be high on the agenda of an autumn
session of the Belarussian parliament that will open here on Monday. More
than 60 bills are already put on the agenda and another 30 bills are
pending the debates in the House of Representatives, the lower house of
Belarussian parliament.
"The republican budget for the next year is seeking to keep a
sustainable economic growth and to make the life level higher on this
basis. We together with the government are guided by the realities and
economic capacities in the settlement of all budgetary issues," the
speaker of the lower house of Belarussian parliament Vladimir Andreichenko
said.
Essentially important documents on the economic agenda of the autumn
parliamentary session are the bills on state innovative policy, economic
insolvency and a draft housing code, he noted.
The Belarussian parliament will take several integration decisions,
which will build up the legal basis for cooperation between the Common
Economic Space states - Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, as well as
economic partnership between Belarus and Russia. The agreement, which was
signed by the member-countries of the Customs Union and the Common
Economic Space to set forth the procedure of special protective,
antidumping and compensation measures during the transitional period, was
passed for ratification.
These measures apply to the imports from the third countries,
therefore, the unified mechanism of their implementation on the common
customs territory was developed, Andreichenko elaborated. Belarussian
lawmakers also intend to debate the bills for the ratification of the
intergovernmental agreements with Russia. These agreements envisage
several measures for the parallel operation of the power grids in the
countries, cooperation in the exploration and use of the outer space for
peaceful purposes and the construction of a nuclear power plant in Belarus.
The Belarussian parliament will also continue its interparliamentary
and international activities. Andreichenko noted the positive experience
of bilateral cooperation between the lawmakers from Belarus and Russia
within the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State. He expressed hope
that after parliamentary and presidential elections in Russia the
lawmakers of the countries will continue to give an example of the
constructive work.
The Council of the Republic, the upper house of Belarussian
parliament, is to debate reshuffle issues at its first plenary meeting.
Belarussian deputies will put up for voting the candidacies for the
chairman of the National Bank board and the general prosecutor, who the
president may appoint after that.