KIEV, Aug. 27 – The government is to consider a draft national budget for 2013 at a meeting in the near future, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

"The government works according to a schedule, which foresees that the draft national budget should be sent to the Verkhovna Rada by September 15, so the government will consider the draft budget and pass it to the parliament in the near few days," he told journalists in Brovary (Kiev region) on Monday.

At the same time, the premier did not specify the main macro indices on which the draft national budget for the next year is based.