Lukashenka asked Putin for another 3 billion dollars in debt
Belarus turned to Russia with a request to give it a loan for 3 billion dollars, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters. According to him, the issue will be considered taking into account the fulfillment of the program conditions for previous Russian loans,
He also said that today at a government meeting the issue of providing the second part of credit support to Belarus, which was approved earlier - $760 million, is being considered. “Today a decision will be made, and we will give this money to them in July,” Siluanov emphasized.
A Kremlin spokesman said that at the meeting between Vladimir Putin and the head of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, the issue of the loan was not discussed in detail.
The external public debt of Belarus as of 1 June 2015 of the year amounted to 12,7 billion dollars, it has grown since the beginning of the year by 1% taking into account exchange differences.
According to the country's Ministry of Finance, in January-May 2015 of the year Belarus attracted external state loans in the amount of 488,1 million dollars, including 328,9 million dollars in loans from the Russian government and banks, 149,8 million in loans from the banks of China and 9,4 million in loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and development (IBRD).
Payments to repay external public debt since the beginning of the year amounted to $377,9 million. Including $125 million were paid for loans from the Russian government, $75,9 million to the IMF, $88,3 million to the EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund (ACF), $80,5 million to Chinese banks, $7,5 million to the IBRD , $0,7 million - USA.
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