The average yield was 4.35%, unchanged from Thursday, when the ministry sold RON500 million in a reopening of the 10-year bond.

The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON4.33 billion in April, up from RON2.84 billion raised a month earlier.

So far in 2014, Romania sold RON11.25 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR678.7 million at three euro-denominated auctions on the local market. The ministry also tapped international markets for $2 billion at a two-part U.S. dollar bond issue in January. (EUR1=RON4.4603)