The combined amount of foreign exchange assets grew to €34.304 bln from €33.854 bln.

Reserve positions in the IMF, SDRs and gold deposits were little changed, coming to €217 mln in total.

The volume of “other reserve instruments” decreased to €2.626 bln from €2.877 bln.

International reserves at the start of the year stood at €34.578 bln, before soaring €3.653 bln in January.