OREANDA-NEWS. March 13, 2012. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov has charged the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade to begin refinement of macroeconomic indicators for 2012 according to economic growth. On their basis to the Ministry of Finance it has been entrusted to develop appropriate amendments to the budget 2012.

Today the Ministry of Finance has begun to develop amendments to the budget for the current year in order to implement social initiatives, as set forth by the President of Ukraine on March 7.
Prime Minister has set a target to develop the bill on amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On State Budget for 2012" by the end of March. Mykola Azarov expressed hope that already at the beginning of April, the document would be submitted to the Verkhovna Rada and by the end of the month the MPs are to consider and adopt it.

Thus, already in May it will be possible to start carrying out a new social policy by means of the state budget.

Mykola Azarov stressed that certainly the Government would fulfill objectives set by the President on the significant increasing of social protection level of citizens.