Parliament approves 2017 state budget bill

Damascus, SANA – The People’s Assembly approved on Wednesday the draft law on the state budget for the fiscal year of 2017, which became a law.

Last month, the Cabinet set the preliminary sum of the state budget at SYP 2660 billion, which are distributed as SYP 1,982 billion for running expenditures and SYP 678 billion for investment expenditures, with sums dedicated to social support set at SYP 423 billion.

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