The ministry had planned to sell debt worth RON50 million at the non-competitive bid. The average yield was 4.66%, unchanged from yesterday.

Monday, the ministry sold a planned RON500 million in the reopening of the bond issue, which was first launched on the local market in March 2010.

The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON2.98 billion in June, down from RON3.75 billion raised a month earlier.

So far in 2013, the Romania sold RON25.17 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR1.08 billion at two euro-denominated auctions on the local market. Additionally, the ministry tapped international markets for $1.5 billion at a US dollar-bond auction in February. (EUR1=RON4.4008)