Lukashenka: I have ordered to take 460 million dollars from the reserve (video)
The press service of the National Bank has informed ERB that they can pay this sum of money in several minutes. “I have ordered to take the money from the reserve and to pay them these 460 million dollars. It’s not big money for the country, -claimed Alyaksandr Lukashenka giving an interview to journalists from the “Sovetskaya Belorussiya” newspaper. – Of course, we are emptying our reserve but Hugo Chavez and other friends of our country have told us not to worry and have promised to give us as many credits as we need.
We will do it so that you could preserve stability. Even foreign banks [claimed]: “We will give you half a million dollars, do not worry”. Europe has started worrying. Read what they are writing about Russian nowadays, although they do not like or value us much. So we will take the money from the reserve today and return it to the reserve with the help of foreign states’ credits. We are not losing anything. Let them take this money and live the way they plan to live”.
“ERB” phoned to the National Bank’s press service to find out how soon they could take the money from the reserve. Let us remind you that the supplies of Russian gas will be cut down at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Will we have enough time to pay? According to the press secretary Mihail Zhuravovich, it’s “a minute’s matter”. However, the former head of the National Bank Stanislau Bahdankevich told ERB that the procedure of taking money from the reserve usually took 2 hours.
Mihail Zhuravovich noted that the order to take the money was to be given by the government because the gold and exchange currency reserves belonged to it. According to ERB, an extraordinary meeting is taking place at the Ministry of Finance now.
We will do it so that you could preserve stability. Even foreign banks [claimed]: “We will give you half a million dollars, do not worry”. Europe has started worrying. Read what they are writing about Russian nowadays, although they do not like or value us much. So we will take the money from the reserve today and return it to the reserve with the help of foreign states’ credits. We are not losing anything. Let them take this money and live the way they plan to live”.
“ERB” phoned to the National Bank’s press service to find out how soon they could take the money from the reserve. Let us remind you that the supplies of Russian gas will be cut down at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Will we have enough time to pay? According to the press secretary Mihail Zhuravovich, it’s “a minute’s matter”. However, the former head of the National Bank Stanislau Bahdankevich told ERB that the procedure of taking money from the reserve usually took 2 hours.
Mihail Zhuravovich noted that the order to take the money was to be given by the government because the gold and exchange currency reserves belonged to it. According to ERB, an extraordinary meeting is taking place at the Ministry of Finance now.
