THE UPPER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT SE WILL LEAN ON THE LAW ON AMENDMENTS TO
BRING TO THE BUDGET-2001








MOSCOW, March 5.  / Corr.  RIA " Novosti " Maria Balynina /. the law
on amendments has to bring to the Budget-2001 in order to be able to
honour engagements with Russia for the service of its debt exterieure
has been just registered has the provisional diary of the meeting of
the Council of the Federation (Upper House of the Russian Parliament)
of next 14 March.

Previously, the known as law has ete adopted by Douma (Lower House of
the Russian Parliament).  Like let know the Prime Minister of the
Federation of Russia Mikhail Kassianov, already as of this 1st March,
the government put itself has to deaden the debts exterieures of
Russia and this, in all their volume.

Like RIA " Novosti " in A ete informee aupres of Konstantin Titov,
president of the budgetary Committee of the Upper House of the
Parliament, it has ete somewhat astonishes to learn that the
government had been already put has to deaden the debts without same
awaiting the approval of the known as law by the senateurs.  At all
events, the president of the budgetary Committee of the Council of the
Federation has regard which the Upper House would undoubtedly end up
approving this law.