Georgian minister denies catastrophic state' of budget

Georgian Finance Minister Alexander Khetaguri has made the first statement on the state budget, Trend reports.

Alexander Khetaguri told Kommersant radio that the budget is not in a catastrophic state, as the Georgian Dream coalition and its leader assume.

He said that the yield in the state budget revenues for 2013 was increased by 500 million laris ($1 = 1.66 laris). It is absurd to talk about a possible crisis.

Khetaguri said that one can see the draft state budget for 2013 on the official website of the Finance Ministry, and that talk about Georgian Dream having no information about the budget is absurd.