BUDAPEST, March 20 (Reuters) - Central eastern European central banks agreed on Friday at a meeting to cooperate in monitoring their economies and financial systems amid the global financial crisis, the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) said.
"The governors of regional central banks discussed matters of mutual interest and, among others agreed to continue the in-depth monitoring of their financial systems and agreed to extend the cooperation to further strengthen the macroprudential oversight throughout the region," the NBH said in a statement.
The participants of the meeting were the heads of the Austrian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak and Slovenian central banks.
(Reporting by Sandor Peto)