Romania's foreign debt falls to 98 mln euro at end-Aug

The end-August figure includes 77.2 billion euro in long- and medium-term foreign debt, compared to 75.9 billion at the end of 2011, the central bank said in a statement.

The figure for the long- and medium-term foreign debt includes government debt and privately-held debt.

Details on Romania's foreign debt follow (in millions of euro):

The long-term and medium-term foreign debt servicing rate, calculated as the ratio of debt payments to total exports, was 29.7 % in the first eight months of 2012 compared to 28.9% in 2011.

($= 0.7721 euro)