Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will promote the extra budget, the development of information technology and the continuation of talks with North Korea and Russia in his policy speech Thursday when an extraordinary session of the Diet begins, government sources said Sunday.

In the speech, Mori will talk of the government's plan to submit a fiscal 2000 supplementary budget of several trillion yen to boost public works projects, including those aimed at expanding IT.

Mori is expected to release the exact amount of the budget after the government approves the figure at a top-level budget meeting on Wednesday, the sources said.