Officials from the USA and Ukraine met on Friday to discuss the White House's proposals regarding the mineral agreement. Donald Trump wants Kiev to transfer his natural resources as a “payment” for the weapon provided by the Biden administrationwrites “The Guardian”.
The negotiations of the contract are becoming more and more fierce, he writes the journal, based on Reuters reports. The latest US project is more “maximalistic” than the original version of February, which proposed to transfer rare metals to Washington worth $ 500 billion, as well as oil and gas.
Donald Trump has a new request to Ukraine. It's about a key gas pipeline
According to reports, among others The Financial Times and the Bloomberg agency, the United States demanded that the renegotiation of the previously agreed, but not signed text of the raw materials agreement was agreed. The new version proposed by the US is to enable Washington to be widely controlled over the operation, sales and profit from the operation of Ukrainian natural raw materials.
Citing a source close to conversations, “The Guardian” writes that The latest document contains a request that the International Corporation of USA funding to take control of gas transporting gas from Western Russia to Użhoroda and further to Europe. Built in Soviet times, the gas pipeline is a key element of national infrastructure and the main route of Russian gas transport to Western Europe.
Volodymyr Landa, a senior economist at the center of economic strategy, Kiev Think Tanku, said that Americans want “everything they can get”. However, in his opinion, their “colonial type” demands have little chance of acceptance by Kiev.
Wołodymyr Zelnski is ready to conclude a contract with the USA. He talks about “parity”
Last autumn, Wołodymyr Zelanski proposed to grant the USA to access to the poorly developed mineral sector of Ukraine. He provided for a contract according to which the new Trump administration would provide Ukraine in exchange for future profits from joint investments.
Instead, Trump refused to accept commitments in the field of security or military support, but he still wants minerals. Last week, he complained that Zelanski was trying to “withdraw from the contract” and said that the President of Ukraine would have “big problems”, if he did not sign it, writes “The Guardian”.
Talking to journalists on Thursday, Zelanski said that he is ready to conclude a contract to modernize his country, but Ukraine can only agree to it when there is a “parity” between both parties and the income will be divided “equally”.
– I just defend what belongs to Ukraine. This should be beneficial for both the United States and Ukraine. This is the right thing to be done – said Zelanski
