“We entered into an agreement where our money is safe, where we can start drilling and do what we should do,” he said.
According to him, the presence of the United States at the place of prey “will keep many bad players away from the country.”
The American leader added that Ukraine and the United States agreed on an agreement, and he suggests that Kyiv will fulfill it.
“We have not yet seen the fruits of this agreement, but I suspect, see,” the head of the White House said.
Context
RBC-Ukraine, citing sources, wrote that Ukraine and the USA can sign an agreement on the joint use of Ukrainian resources on April 30.
On the same day, the Financial Times, citing three Ukrainian officials, said that when the plane of the first deputy minister-Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko was heading to Washington, the US Minister of Finance Scott Immona told her that she should “be ready to sign all the agreements or return home.”
Two Ukrainian officials stated the media that the United States wants to simultaneously sign both a framework agreement and a separate, more detailed agreement on an investment fund, which will manage income from mineral production. Another media interlocutor, familiar with the US position, said that negotiations were not completed, since Ukraine sought to reconsider the conditions agreed on last weekend.
The Ukrainian side explained to journalists that the US information is inaccurate and that Kyiv cannot sign both documents on Wednesday, since the Fund should ratify the Verkhovna Rada before signing.
Immentine said that the United States is ready to sign an agreement on subsoil with Ukraine, but Kyiv allegedly proposed new edits to the document.
Suprikaln, citing a source in the office of the President of Ukraine, writes that Ukraine did not offer amendments to the draft intergovernmental agreement on subsidiaries and rare earth metals.
Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said that the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine made decisions necessary for signing a bilateral agreement with the United States on the creation of an investment recovery fund.
