A team of experts of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), which manages assets of the Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development (EFSD), visited Minsk for program monitoring and consultations on amending the Belarusian government’s reform program backed by an EFSD loan with a focus on the final seventh tranche of the loan, BelTA has learned.

While in Minsk the EDB experts met with Belarusian Finance Minister Maksim Yermolovich, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus (NBRB) Dmitry Kalechits, top officials and specialists of the ministries and government agencies involved, representatives of international financial institutions, and independent experts.

Consultations between Belarusian authorities and the EDB experts resulted in a preliminary list of tweaks and addenda to the reform program backed by the EFSD loan with a focus on the seventh tranche. The final list of the adjusted measures of the tranche will be forwarded for consideration of the EFSD Council.