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Belarus national debt up 12.5 pct in 2016

Xinhua, February 1, 2017 Adjust font size:

The national debt of Belarus increased by 12.5 percent in 2016 comparing with the previous year, Belarusian Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.

Belarusian external public debt amounted to 13.6 billion U.S. dollars, having increased by 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, or 9.6 percent.

In 2016, Belarus received 800 million U.S. dollars loan from Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development, 552 million U.S. dollars as credits from the government of the Russian Federation and Russian banks, 446.9 million U.S. dollars from Chinese banks.

Belarus paid a total of external public debt of 892.4 million U.S. dollars in 2016, the Ministry added.

Belarusian internal public debt amounted to 10.2 billion rubles (168 nillion U.S. dollars) as of January 1, 2017, an increase of five percent from a year ago. Endit