OREANDA-NEWS. Belarus' state foreign debt went down 1.36% on the month in July 2014 to U.S. USD 15.22 billion as of August 1, 2014 by the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standards, reads the website of the Finance Ministry.

The government's long-term debt accounted for 76.3% of the total foreign debt in July 2014 (73.6% in June 2014), the government's short-term debt for 10.2% (13%), and foreign loans to companies' against the government's security for 13.5% (13.4%).

In 2013, the foreign debt increased 7.4% to USD 14.6 billion.

Belarus' main creditors are the IMF, the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund, Russia, Venezuela, Germany, the U.S. and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.