YEREVAN, February 5. /ARKA/. An Armenian daily ‘Haykakan Zhamanak’ (Armenian Time) says in an apparent effort to prevent a renewed depreciation of the national currency, the dram, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) injected on February 4 over $29 million in the local currency market.

According to the newspaper, this was the first and ‘impressive’ currency intervention, made by the Central Bank recently.

"This means a rising demand for hard currency, which may lead to a significant depreciation of the dram. However, given that the demand did not cause panic among the population, one can say that the situation will be controlled by the Central Bank for a long time," the newspaper says.

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The latest adjustment of Armenia’s national currency, the dram’s exchange rate is prompted by the need to make Armenian exports more competitive and preserve the Central Bank’s reserves, a Central Bank Board member, Armenak Darbinyan, told a news briefing today

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