{"id":547774,"date":"2026-06-03T11:13:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=547774"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:51:34","slug":"belarus-foreign-exchange-reserves-decline-but-remain-above-15-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-foreign-exchange-reserves-decline-but-remain-above-15-billion","title":{"rendered":"Belarus&#8217; Foreign Exchange Reserves Decline but Remain Above $15 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus&#8217; foreign exchange reserves stood at $15.04 billion as of June 1, according to data published by the National Bank. The reserves decreased by $228.6 million in May.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The reduction in foreign exchange reserves was due to a decline in gold prices on international markets, as well as payments on the external obligations of the government of the Republic of Belarus,&#8221;<\/em> the National Bank said.<\/p>\n<p>The value of monetary gold included in the reserves fell by $107.8 million in May to $7.88 billion, while the value of Special Drawing Rights declined by $7 million to $1.41 billion. Reserve assets in foreign currency decreased by $113.8 million to $5.75 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The reserve position in the IMF and other assets remained unchanged at $0.03 billion and $0.1 million respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with January 1, the volume of foreign exchange reserves increased by $614.6 million. The value of monetary gold rose by $410.9 million, the value of Special Drawing Rights decreased by $4.7 million, and reserve assets in foreign currency increased by $208.3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus&#8217; foreign exchange reserves stood at $15.04 billion as of June 1, according to data published by the National Bank. The reserves decreased by $228.6 million in May. &#8220;The reduction in foreign exchange reserves was due to a decline in gold prices on international markets, as well as payments on the external obligations of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":531417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a1feb196a1bb.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019 Foreign Exchange Reserves Decline but Remain Above $15 Billion"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}