OREANDA-NEWS. August 8, 2012. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went up 5% in January-June 2012 to USD 9.855 billion as of July 1, 2012, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

In June alone Belarus’ foreign exchange reserves increased 3.2% on the month by USD 309.7 million.

Foreign exchange reserves decreased 16.8% on the month to USD 4.536 billion as of July 1, 2012.

The amount of precious metals and gems in the NBB reserves increased 14.3% in January-June 2012 to USD 2.755 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 2.194 billion as of July 1, 2012, up 15.2% from January 1, 2012, of gold on foreign bank accounts was at USD 359.8 million (up 1.6%), of other precious metals went up 35.1% to USD 165.1 million, and of precious stones went up 24% to USD 35.7 million.

Other reserve assets increased 68.4% to USD 2.564 billion as of July 1, 2012.

In 2011, Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves went up 52.6% to USD 9.387 billion.