The “International Reserves and Foreign Exchange Liquidity Developments” data for the June 2024 period was published by the CBRT.
Accordingly, official reserve assets decreased by 0.5 percent in June compared to the previous month and amounted to 142.9 billion dollars.
In this period, in terms of sub-items, foreign exchange assets increased by 1.3 percent compared to the previous month, reaching 77.4 billion dollars, while gold reserve assets decreased by 2.8 percent, falling to 58.1 billion dollars.
The predetermined foreign exchange outflows of the Central Government and the Central Bank (liabilities arising from foreign exchange loans, securities and deposit transactions) with a maturity of 1 year or less increased by 2.2 percent compared to the previous month and reached approximately 46.6 billion dollars.
Approximately $38.8 billion of this amount consists of principal and $7.8 billion of interest.
In addition, the Central Bank’s net foreign exchange and gold liabilities arising from swap transactions with domestic and foreign banks amounted to approximately 27.8 billion dollars, while 4.7 billion dollars of this amount was recorded as one-month maturity.
During this period, the conditional foreign exchange outflows consisted of Treasury-guaranteed foreign debts to be paid within 1 year and other liabilities (foreign exchange and gold required reserves, blocked accounts and letters of credit), and these liabilities decreased by 2.5 percent compared to the previous month and fell to 49.6 billion dollars.
