ДЕПАРТАМЕНТ ФИНАНСОВ ВНЕШНЕЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИХ СВЯЗЕЙ И ВНЕШНЕГО ДОЛГА МИН. ФИНАНСОВ РБ

The organization, named Департамент финансов внешнеэкономических связей и внешнего долга Мин. финансов РБ (Department of Finances for External Economic Relations and External Debt of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus), is a department under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus. The department's main functions are managing the country's external financial relations and external debt. Valeria Kravchenko, the director of the department, suggested in a press conference on August 21, 2003 that Belarus may soon receive a sovereign credit rating, allowing it to access international financial markets. The department has been mentioned in various news articles since 2003. Other departments under the Ministry of Finance include the Department of Finances of Production Sphere and Communications, the Department of the