OREANDA-NEWS. March 17, 2010. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves (calculated under the national methodology) went down to 1.1% in January-February 2010 up to USD 5.91 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had increased to 8.3% up to USD 2.741 billion by March 1, 2010.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 0.7% in January-February to USD 1.144 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 802.6 million as of March 1, 2010, down to 0.05% from January 1, 2010, of gold on foreign bank accounts increased to 3.3% up to USD 192.5 million, of other precious metals went up 4.4% to USD 87.2 million, and of precious stones went down to 2.4% up to USD 43.9 million.

Other reserve assets decreased to 12.4% up to USD 2.025 billion as of March 1, 2010.

In 2009, Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves rose to 63.2% up to USD 5.979 billion.