YEREVAN, January 31. / ARKA /. Armenia’s gross international reserves in 2010 December contracted by 7.2% ($144.4 million) from a year before to $1.859 billion, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) said in a statement posted on its official website.
It said reserves in convertible foreign currency reduced by 2.8% or $55.23 million to $1.825.5 billion as of December 30, 2010. Armenia’s
SDR at IMF dropped to $33.5 million from $124.69 million in late 2009 December. -0-
Structure of Armenia’s gross international reserves
($ mln.)
| Name | Dec.-09 | Jan.-10 | Feb.-10 | March-10 | Apr..-10 | May-10 | June-10 | July-10 | Aug.- 10 | Sep.10 | Oct.-10 | Nov.-10 | Dec.-10 |
| Gross international reserves | 2003,41 | 1938,45 | 1848,64 | 1838,08 | 1887,4 | 1783,5 | 1780,0 | 1831,2 | 1839,7 | 1848,4 | 1842,1 | 1,809.5 | 1,859.0 |
| Gold | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SDR at IMF | 124,69 | 123,64 | 120,22 | 118,57 | 25,6 | 20,3 | 43,5 | 44,6 | 41,9 | 43,3 | 39,0 | 32.1 | 33.5 |
| Reserve position at IMF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Foreign currency reserves (in freely convertible currencies) | 1878,73 | 1814,81 | 1728,42 | 1719,52 | 1862,1 | 1763,3 | 1736,5 | 1786,6 | 1797,8 | 1805,3 | 1803,2 | 1,777.4 | 1,825.5 |
