SPEAKER: SENATORS WILL APPROVE LAW ON AMENDING THE BUDGET-2001








MOSCOW, March 14, 2001. /RIA Novosti correspondent/. 


	Yegor Stroyev, Speaker of the Federation Council, upper house of the Russian parliament, is sure that the Federation  Council will approve the law on amending the budget-2001 at its session on Wednesday. 


	According to Mr Stroyev, the need to adopt the law was  caused by the fact that this year Russia should redeem all her foreign debts to international financial institutions. 


	Mr Stroyev told journalists before the session's beginning  that the senators "still haven't got any reason to deny the law." According to the speaker, he was discussing the problem of  the budget-2001 accumulation with Alexei Kudrin, vice-premier and finance minister of Russia, in the course of an hour and a half  on Tuesday. Mr Stroyev noted that the budget accumulation  proceeds with a certain surplus which is enough for both  implementing social programmes in Russia and settling foreign  debts.