HE the Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani chaired yesterday the Cabinet’s weekly meeting at Emiri Diwan. The Cabinet approved state’s draft public budget for fiscal 2017, and a draft law on budget approval. It also approved to refer all the budget’s chapters and sectors as well as the draft law to the Advisory Council. The budget’s approval took into considerations the following: supporting the implementation of National Development Strategy of Qatar Vision 2030; commitment to expenditure estimates in the public budget over the medium term; continuing focus on increasing the efficiency of public spending; continuing work on increasing the efficiency of other income (non-oil); and maintaining the credit rating of the state. The meeting took the necessary measures to issue a draft decree approving the rules governing the GCC logo.