The average yield was 3.54%, unchanged from Thursday, when the ministry sold RON234.8 million in a reopening of the five-year bond.

The ministry plans to sell state treasuries worth RON3.1 billion in September.

So far in 2014, the country sold RON28.9 billion in leu-denominated notes and EUR928.7 million at four 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, and raised EUR1.25 billion in a ten-year Eurobond sale in April. (EUR1=RON4.4175)