OREANDA-NEWS. June 23, 2010. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went up 4.8% in January-May 2010 to USD 6.265 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had increased 24.1% to USD 3.14 billion by June 1, 2010.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 9.7% in January-May to USD 1.246 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 786.6 million as of June 1, 2010, down 4.2% from January 1, 2010, of gold on foreign bank accounts increased 71.9% to USD 320.5 million, of other precious metals went up 12.6% to USD 94 million, and of precious stones remained unchanged at USD 45 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 18.7% to USD 1.879 billion as of June 1, 2010.

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