NBR's International Reserves in August 2002
02.09.2002
At
end-August 2002, NBR's foreign exchange reserves came in at USD 5,545.2 million (EUR 5,628.5 million).
The USD 317.1 million rise in August 2002 resulted from the following operations:
- USD 252.4 million purchases by the central bank from the forex market;
- USD 37 million inflows within the SAPARD programme;
- USD 22.4 million incomes from international reserve management;
- USD 71.3 million repayments and payment of interest falling due, on external public debt, direct and bearing the sovereign guarantee of the Ministry of Public Finance;
- USD 76.6 million other net inflows (changes in the foreign exchange required reserves set up by commercial banks, surrender of foreign exchange to official reserves, bank commissions, quotas, a. s. o.).
The gold stock went up to 105.3 tonnes, its value reaching USD 1,057.2 million following the developments in the world price of gold, which left the NBR's international reserves (gold included) at over USD 6.6 billion (over EUR 6.7 billion).
The payments on external public debt, direct and bearing the sovereign guarantee of the Ministry of Public Finance due by the end of 2002 run at USD 524 million.