OREANDA-NEWS. January 18, 2011. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went up 3% in January-December 2010 to USD 6.155 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had increased 11.8% to USD 2.829 billion by January 1, 2011.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 60% in January-December to USD 1.803 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 1.6 billion as of January 1, 2011, up 90% from January 1, 2010, of gold on foreign bank accounts was at nil, of other precious metals went up 59% to USD 132.8 million, and of precious stones went up 57.3% to USD 70.8 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 34.1% to USD 1.523 billion as of January 1, 2011.

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