DUBAI- Qatar's central bank sold 600 million riyals ($165 million) of treasury bills in an auction, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

A total of 300 million riyals worth of three-month T-bills were sold at 1.96%, 200 million riyals worth of six-month T-bills were sold at 1.98% and 100 million worth of nine-month T-bills were sold at 2.01%. ($1 = 3.6400 Qatar riyals)

(Reporting By Aziz El Yaakoubi) ((aziz.elyaakoubi@thomsonreuters.com; +971552994086; Reuters Messaging: aziz.elyaakoubi.reuters.com@reuters.net))