OREANDA-NEWS. April 20, 2011. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went down 14.6% in January-March 2011 to USD 5.254 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had decreased 20.2% to USD 2.258 billion by April 1, 2011.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 9.3% in January-March to USD 1.972 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 1.4 billion as of April 1, 2011, down 12.5% from January 1, 2011, of gold on foreign bank accounts was at USD 351.8 million, of other precious metals went up 12.9% to USD 149.9 million, and of precious stones went down 1.7% to USD 69.6 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 32.8% to USD 1.024 billion as of April 1, 2011.

In 2010, Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves rose 3% to USD 6.155 billion.