BUCHAREST, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The Romanian central bank's

foreign exchange reserves, excluding 103.7 tonnes of gold, edged

up by 253 million euros to 31.5 billion euros ($42.7 billion) on

the month in January, it said on Friday.

Inflows were at about 2 billion euros, while outflows were

at roughly 1.7 billion euros. Payments to service external

public and publicly guaranteed debt maturing in February

totalled 863 million euros.

FOREX RESERVES end-January end-December

(euro mln) 31,459 31,206

Total entries 1,985 2,132

Total outflows 1,732 2,093

($1 = 0.7367 euros)

(Reporting by Ioana Patran; editing by Radu Marinas)

Keywords: ROMANIA RESERVES/

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