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Parliament deputies will be expected to adopt the 2011 state draft budget this fall. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will update its macroeconomic forecasts for the calculations of the draft state budget for 2011, taking into account the forecasts of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), which differ from government estimates, First Deputy Head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration Iryna Akimova has said.

"The discrepancy in the estimates [of the government and the National Bank of Ukraine] is a good thing, because it means that there is a discussion, rather than team economics... This discrepancy should be used as a basis while drafting the state budget for 2011," she told reporters in Kyiv on Friday.

"The public will focus on the assessments that become the basis of the 2011 budget, which I hope will be adopted this autumn," Akimova said.

As reported, the NBU predicted inflation in Ukraine in 2010 at 10.5% and in 2011 at 11.2% against the background of a slowdown in GDP growth. In its opinion, GDP growth in 2010 is estimated at 4% and in 2011 at 3.7%.

The Ukrainian government, unlike the National Bank of Ukraine, expects GDP growth in 2010 at 3.7% and inflation at 13.1% and in 2011 at 4.5% and 8.9% respectively.