“Earlier, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported at a briefing that a memorandum of intention to enter into an agreement can be signed today”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
He believes that the document will be signed next Thursday.
“We have a mineral agreement that I think it will be signed on Thursday,” Trump said.
He added that he expects that Ukraine will “fulfill the agreement” after its signing.
Earlier on April 17, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced at a briefing that a memorandum of intention to conclude an agreement could be signed today.
On the eve Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko reported that The technical teams of Ukraine and the US “worked very thoroughly” on the mineral agreement.
The Ukrainian and American sides, she said, agreed to record these achievements in the appropriate memorandum of intentions and are preparing to complete the formalization of the agreement in the near future.
On March 24, US President Donald Trump saidthat expects that an agreement with Ukraine on minerals will be signed soon. Subsequently, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed that the United States is preparing a new deal of agreement. According to him, the US side offered Kiev a “big deal”.
Newspaper Financial Times And the agency Bloombergwho have read the new project of the agreement, reported that the United States insisted on the conclusion of a new agreement with Ukraine, which will extend to all natural resources, including oil and gas, as well as the main energy assets of the country.