BUCHAREST: The Romanian central bank's foreign exchange reserves, excluding 103.7 tonnes of gold, rose by 189 million euros to 29.34 billion euros ($33.05 billion) at the end of August, it said on Tuesday.

Inflows were 654 million euros and accounted for changes in the foreign exchange minimum reserve requirements and inflows into finance ministry and the European Commission's accounts.

Outflows totalled 465 million euros.

The central bank said payments to service external public and publicly guaranteed foreign currency debt in September totalled roughly 349 million euros.

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