Sviridenko: The Investment Fund of the United States has held the first meeting with the United States of Investment Fund

Representatives of Ukraine and the United States today held the first meeting of the head of the Investment Fund of Reconstruction, said Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko on September 3.

“It is a key governing body, which includes three representatives from Ukraine and the US. The American side delegated the Minister of Finance Scott Bessent, the DFC Main Investment Director (International Financial Corporation of US Development – Ed.) Connor Coleman, Vice President and General Legal Counsel DFC Robert Stebbins, ”she wrote on her social networks.

According to the head of the government, the Council approved the rules of work, formed committees, and also granted the opening of the funds of the Fund and the choice of administrator and investment advisor.

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“The next step is to identify the projects for the first pilot investment, in September we will discuss with colleagues with DFC during their visit to Kiev,” Sviridenko said.

She expressed the opinion that US investments could be a guarantee of security for Ukraine and for US business in Ukraine.

Ukraine and USA signed the Agreement on April 30 On the economic partnership and the creation of the investment fund of reconstruction. According to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko, the document, among other things, stipulates that full property and control remain under Ukraine, the Fund is created 50/50, none Ukraine’s debt to the USA, The agreement will not be an obstacle to Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, and the fund will be filled with revenues exclusively from new licenses.

The Agreement on the US-Ukrainian Reconstruction Fund Officially came into force in May, after the US diplomatic note.