OREANDA-NEWS. May 15, 2007. The basic forecast indicators of the development of Belarus’ banking system over the first quarter of 2007 have been reached. This information was included in the report presented by the Chairman of the Board of the National Bank, Pyotr Prokopovich, to the President of the Republic of Belarus on May 15, reported the Presidential website www.president.gov.by.
The Head of State demanded that all the indicators specified in the basic guidelines of the monetary and credit policy of Belarus for six months and for the whole year 2007 should be attained.
In this respect, Alexander Lukashenko draw special attention to the need of full-scale crediting of the real sector of economy and the population so as to fulfill the existing plans of the socio-economic development of Belarus.
In this connection, the National Bank will once more examine, within the short time scale, the ways of increasing the volumes of crediting the real sector of economy and building up the banking data resources.
It was pointed out that the credits in the economy in the first quarter of 2007 had grown by 41.9 percent in real prices compared to the respective period of the prior year. The Head of State demanded that the pace of growth reached as per the results of six months and the whole year should remain at a high level.