OREANDA-NEWS. March 22, 2011. Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves [calculated under the national methodology] went down 10.5% in January-February 2011 to USD 5.512 billion, according to the National Bank of Belarus (NBB).

Foreign exchange reserves had decreased 22% to USD 2.207 billion by March 1, 2011.

The amount of precious metals and stones in the NBB reserves increased 1.1% in January-February to USD 1.823 billion, of monetary gold amounted to USD 1.261 billion as of March 1, 2011, down 21.2% from January 1, 2011, of gold on foreign bank accounts was at USD 344.9 million, of other precious metals went up 10.9% to USD 147.3 million, and of precious stones went down 0.8% to USD 70.2 million.

Other reserve assets decreased 2.7% to USD 1.482 billion as of March 1, 2011.

In 2010, Belarus’ gold and foreign exchange reserves rose 3% to USD 6.155 billion.