Thursday, September 26 2013 14:38
Government of Armenia adopts decision to issue government note to reduce loss of Central Bank
ArmInfo. Government of Armenia adopted a decision Thursday to provide an ordinary non-interest-bearing government note on demand in the amount of 98.2 bln drams to the Central Bank of Armenia. Finance Minister Davied Sagrsyan introduced the draft decision. He said that note is provided to reduce the accumulated loss of the Central Bank for 2012 that exceeded reserves by 20.6 bln drams.
For that purpose, the Finance Ministry issued a government note for 55.6 bln drams to the Central Bank in August 2010 and another 77.5 bln drams in Aug 2011. Central Bank's equity fell from 2q98.4 bln drams to negative 20.6 bln drams ($51 mln) due to 17% increase in the accumulated loss to 144.4 bln drams ($357.8 mln) in 2012. In the first half, the accumulated loss of the Central Bank fell 10%. In Q3, the accumulated loss increased 3.6%, and in Q4 - 25.5%. Due to the government note, the equity of the Central Bank was increased to the positive level in early 2012 till October 1.
(The Central Bank's exchange rate fpr 26 Sept 2013 is 405.86AMD/1USD).