Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has instructed the Finance Ministry to start work on the budget resolution for 2009.

Tymoshenko announced this in her opening word at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers.

"[Simultaneously with the work on amendments to the 2008 national budget] we will start to draw up the budget resolution for 2009," Tymoshenko said.

She added that the Finance Ministry should be guided in the work on the budget resolution by a number of new budget priorities - the formation of expenses on the ground of budget programs and reforming of the relations between budgets.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, according to the Ukrainian legislation, the Verkhovna Rada should start parliamentary hearings on the issue of the budget resolution no later than June 1, while the Cabinet of Ministers is obliged to submit its draft budget resolution to the parliament four working days ahead of the hearings.