“According to government officials, they have agreed on much more profitable conditions, and depict an agreement as a way to expand relations with the United States”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
Ukrainian government officials say that Kiev is ready to sign an agreement on joint development of mineral resources, including oil and gas, after the United States has abandoned the claims for the right of $ 500 billion of potential income from the operation of these resources.
According to government officials, they have agreed on much more favorable conditions, and portray an agreement as a way to expand relations with the United States to strengthen Ukraine’s prospects after three years of war.
“The mineral mining agreement is only part of the picture. We have repeatedly heard from the US administration that it is part of a larger picture, ”Olga Stefanyshyn, Vice Prime Minister and Justice Minister of Ukraine, who headed the negotiations, said on Tuesday in an interview with Financial Times.
According to the publication “Economic Truth”, The updated treaty does not stipulate that the United States will fully have a common fund with Ukraine, but it does not have clear security guarantees.
The document should be signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sibiga and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. According to him, the US and Ukraine should create an investment fund of reconstruction.
Officially, neither the United States nor Ukraine was reported on the agreement of the mineral contracts.
The United States was offered to Ukraine in Ukraine. President Donald Trump stated that he is planning 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.
February 24 Trump stated that about to meet Zelensky in the next two weeks to sign a transaction on access to rare earth metals. “Almost all key parts have been agreed. We intend to complete them as soon as possible to start signing the document, ” – confirmed in Kiev.
Meanwhile, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to offer state and private structures of the US joint work on rare earth metals.
