OREANDA-NEWS. August 19, 2010. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went down 3% in January-July 2010 to USD 5.799 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had increased 17.3% to USD 2.968 billion by August 1, 2010.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 11.6% in January-July to USD 1.267 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 821 million as of August 1, 2010, down 0.01% from January 1, 2010, of gold on foreign bank accounts increased 64.8% to USD 307.2 million, of other precious metals went up 12% to USD 93.5 million, and of precious stones went up 1.6% to USD 45.7 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 32.3% to USD 1.564 billion as of August 1, 2010.

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