OREANDA-NEWS.  July 13, 2012. According to the National Bank of Moldova as of June, 2009 they amounted to USD 2 bln. 059.06 mln., against USD \\$2 bln. 043 mln. registered at the end of May.

The increase in official reserve assets in June was caused by the following reasons: interventions in the domestic foreign exchange market by purchasing currency at a sum of USD 20.3 mln.; monetary gold received from the state fund of precious metals and stones of USD 3.38 mln. to increase the equity capital of the National Bank; incomes from monetary reserves administration of USD 1.86 mln.; other receipts of USD 0.69 mln.

At the same time, the decrease in monetary reserves was caused by external debt service payments at a sum of USD 6,9 mln and other external payments of USD 1,93 mln.; the USD 0,67 mln. lower exchange rate of currencies included into makeup of monetary reserves against USD; payments on foreign currency required reserves of licensed banks at a sum of USD 0.38 mln.; payments preformed at a sum of USD 0,29 mln. by an order of the Credit Line Directorate under the Ministry of Finance. Monetary reserves of the National Bank of Moldova increased USD 93.74 mln., 4.8% in the first half of 2012.