OREANDA-NEWS. Belarus borrowed a total of USD 1.697 billion on external markets in January-September 2013, with USD 1.360 spent to pay off the government's external public debt, the Finance Ministry of Belarus said in a report.

This includes USD 880 million drawn in the framework of the standby programme of the EurAsEC Anticrisis Fund; USD 377.8 million under by the Russian government's state export loan for building the Belarusian nuclear power plant; USD 333.8 million in Chinese bank loans, and USD 105.5 million in credit resources from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Belarus paid out USD 1.124 billion to repay a standby loan of the IMF; USD 112.5 million to repay loans from the Russian government, USD 48.8 million to repay a loan from the Bank for Economic and Social Development of Venezuela, USD 67.5 million to repay loans from Chinese banks. Belarus paid USD 7.1 million to honour commitments involved in all the other external borrowings.