The meeting of the Interbank Currency Council of the central banks of Belarus and Russia will be held today in Orsha

May 22, Minsk /BELTA/. The meeting of the Interbank Currency Council of the central banks of Belarus and Russia will be held today in Orsha, the Information Department of the National Bank of Belarus informed a BELTA correspondent. It will be attended by Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Petr Prokopovich, Chairman of the Bank of Russia Sergey Ignatiev, and other representatives of the central banks of the two countries. The participants of the meeting will analyze the economic situation and the implementation of the main directions of monetary policy in Belarus and Russia in the first quarter of this year, including the exchange rate policy, as well as measures taken to minimize the consequences of the global financial and economic crisis and to regulate the liquidity of the banking sector. It is planned to consider the results of the work of the banking systems of the two countries in 2008, the development and functioning of credit history bureaus in Belarus and Russia, and the improvement of reporting of credit organizations used for supervisory purposes. The meeting will also discuss the bilateral balance of payments and the balance of payments of the Union State for 2008, the use of enterprise monitoring results, and the dynamics of international reserves and foreign currency liquidity of the central banks of the two countries based on the definitions used within the framework of the IMF's Special Data Dissemination Standard. -0-