OREANDA-NEWS. On July 30, 2008 The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the Verkhovna Rada the draft amendments to the state budget 2008 with allocation of funds to mitigate consequences of flood in the western regions, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at the aircraft on her way to Ivano-Frankivsk region.

She also said the draft document was forwarded to President Viktor Yushchenko.

The government, according to Tymoshenko, will ask the President and the Verkhovna Rada Speaker for the document to be considered at the parliament's extraordinary session as first-priority.

Verkhovna Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenuik signed an order to convoke the parliament's extraordinary session on July 31.

It is supposed to consider a draft law to enact the President's order of July 28, 2008 "On Declaration of Separate Territories of Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zakarpattia, Lviv, Ternopil and Chernivtsi Regions the Areas of Extraordinary Ecological Situation" and a draft law on making amendments to the Law of Ukraine "On the State Budget of Ukraine 2008 and Making Amendments to some Legal Acts of Ukraine".