“The day before it became known that it became known that Kyiv agreed with Washington the terms of the updated mineral production agreement”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, the agreement will have six key positions:
- The first – Ukraine and the US are creating an investment fund of reconstruction, which will be jointly owned and jointly managed by the governments of both countries;
- second-Ukrainian subsoil and resources remain Ukrainian, they are not transferred to either the US property or anyone else;
- third-Ukraine will enter 50% of future revenues from its natural resource assets;
- Fourth – the United States will contribute to the Fund in the form of funds, financial instruments and other assets critical for Ukraine;
- the fifth – the funds raised by the fund will be invested exclusively in the projects of reconstruction of Ukraine;
- Sixth – the agreement takes into account obligations within the European integration process. That is, no contradictions and contradictions with European integration obligations will arise.
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February 25 became aware that Kyiv agreed with Washington’s terms of the updated agreement about mining. As noted, for signing the agreement President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky should come to the United States on February 28.
At the beginning of the month President Donald Trump stated that wants to negotiate with Ukraine about an agreementthat will provide US access to rare earth minerals used in electronics. Trump stated that it plans to compensate for the assistance provided to Kiev, the volume of which He estimated at $ 500 billion.
After Kyiv rejected the first version of the resource agreement, Trump sharply criticized President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who claimed that the US assisted was about $ 100 billion.