BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

27/12/2007

Belarus receives Russia's credit

MINSK, December 27 (Itar-Tass) -- A Russian state credit of 1.5 billion dollars came to Belarus, ITAR-TASS learnt at the Finance Ministry of the republic.

Russia's credit of 1.5 billion dollars came in "on the foreign exchange account of the Finance Ministry at the National Bank of Belarus," a ministry spokesman said.

The sides signed the agreement on the provision of a 15-year credit of 1.5 billion dollars to Belarus on December 20.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12219282&PageNum=0