“Zelensky noted that the agreement has no debt and a fund is created – a recovery fund that will “invest in Ukraine and earn here””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
Zelensky noted that the agreement has no debt and a fund is created – a recovery fund that will “invest in Ukraine and earn here.”
“It is work with America and on fair conditions, when both the Ukrainian state and the United States can earn in partnership, which help us in defense,” he added.
The President also announced a conversation with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk, in particular the ratification of the agreement.
On April 30, Ukraine and the United States signed an Economic Partnership Agreement and the establishment of an investment fund of reconstruction. According to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko, the document, among other things, provides that full property and control remain under Ukraine, the Fund is created 50/50, no debt of Ukraine to the United States, the agreement will be an obstacle to Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, and the fund will be filled with revenues exclusively.
US Finance Minister Scott Bessent stressed that this Agreement “clearly signals” Russia that Donald Trump’s Presidential Administration is set to a peaceful process “focused on free, sovereign and prosperous Ukraine in the long run.”
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Earlier, Prime Minister Denis Shmigal announced that the government would hold tomorrow, May 1, consultations with factions, groups and the Verkhovna Rada’s leadership on ratification of the US Agreement.
Donald Trump has projected an agreement from the beginning of his second presidency in January. Both parties were ready to sign an agreement on natural resources in February, but the signatures were postponed after the meeting of Trump and President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in the oval office turned into a dispute.