Azerbaijan, Baku, June 5 / Trend, E. Aliyev /
By the end of May 2013, the total amount of currency reserves held by the Central Bank of Azerbaijan (CBA) reached $12.572 billion, the bank said in a statement posted on its website.
According to the statement, since the beginning of the year currency reserves have risen by 7.5 percent, or $877.5 million (the Central Bank's foreign exchange reserves amounted to $11.694 billion in early 2013).
Year on year, the level of foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan has increased by 15.42 percent, or $1.680 billion.