OREANDA-NEWS. February 15, 2010. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went down 6.3% in January 2010 to USD 5.601 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had increased 3.4% to USD 2.617 billion by January 1, 2010.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves decreased 1.9% in January to USD 1.115 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 802.6 million as of February 1, 2010, down 2.3% from January 1, 2010, of gold on foreign bank accounts decreased 2.3% to USD 182.1 million, of other precious metals went up 2.5% to USD 85.6 million, and of precious stones went down 0.9% to USD 44.6 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 19.1 times to USD 1.869 billion as of February 1, 2010.

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