OREANDA-NEWS. November 30, 2010. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went up 6.1% in January-October 2010 to USD 6.345 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had increased 21.7% to USD 3.08 billion by November 1, 2010.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 50% in January-October to USD 1.679 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 1.179 billion as of November 1, 2010, up 43.6% from January 1, 2010, of gold on foreign bank accounts increased 81.8% to USD 338.8 million, of other precious metals went up 36.2% to USD 113.7 million, and of precious stones went up 4.9% to USD 47.2 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 31.4% to USD 1.585 billion as of November 1, 2010.

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