He predicts an effective vote in the Rada, although there are also opponents of the contract among parliamentarians. The American side needs to limit such deputies access to the United States, the head of state believes.
“Today they vote not only for the sake of the future, but in order to maintain what we need today [сейчас]… There are people who are configured not to do. So, for example, I believe that the United States just needs to cancel their visas, ”Zelensky said.
According to him, these people's deputies ride America monthly.
“They tell how bad here is in Ukraine, how to end the war very quickly, which are important parts of Ukraine, which are not very important. After they pass through the corridors of congressmen or senators, they say that they are friends, brothers forever, and then they return to Ukraine and do not vote for what is fundamentally for America. The result will be on the scoreboard: whoever has voted and who can not be played. The game, ”the president summed up.
Context
The agreement on Ukrainian resources Ukraine and the United States signed on April 30, the first Deputy Prime Minister-Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko reported this night. It suggests creation of a joint investment fund with an equal distribution of participation – 50/50. Fund funds will be invested only in Ukraine – in mining, oil, gas, infrastructure and processing projects. At the same time, complete control over subsoil and resources remains for Ukraine, as well as the right to determine the conditions for the use of national resources.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, commenting on the signing of the contract, said he leads to the end of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. “The United States and Ukraine signed an agreement on the investment fund of reconstruction – a milestone in our general prosperity and an important step towards the cessation of war,” he wrote in Kh.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on May 1 announced on its official website the text of the agreement with the United States on Subsoil In Ukrainian and English. It provides, in particular, the extraction of 57 types of minerals and contains guarantees that the agreement will not contradict Ukraine’s agreements with the EU and the desire of Ukraine to enter. Also, the parties will not accrue on income from the partnership any duties or taxes.
In the evening handling, Zelensky noted that Ukraine is interested in making no delay with the agreement. On the same day, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted the Verkhovna Rada a bill on ratification of the agreement Between Ukraine and the USA on the creation of the recovery investment fund.
