Norway's central bank has not yet decided when to start cutting its policy interest rates, Governor Ida Wolden Bache told a news conference on Friday.

Norges Bank kept its key policy interest rate on hold at 4.50% earlier on Friday, as unanimously expected by analysts, and said a tight monetary policy stance may be needed for somewhat longer than previously envisaged to curb inflation. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik, editing by Anna Ringstrom and Louise Rasmussen)