The internally held public debt to the National Bank of Moldova at end-September was US$2.21 billion. It remained unchanged since the middle of last year. However, the interest rate becomes lower, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to the central bank, the internal debt on August 31 was serviced at an interest rate of 8.39%, a decrease of 10.4% compared with last year. At the start of 2008, the internally held public debt was US$3.7 billion and consisted of loans of US$1.9 billion released by the central bank and state securities to the value of US$1.8 billion.