Secretary of the US Treasury: The contract with Ukraine gives new negotiations with Putin

This is a signal for Russian leadership. He gives President Trump the opportunity to negotiate with Russia with even stronger arguments – the American Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent assessed the agreement on the US access to the natural resources of Ukraine.

Mineral resource agreement between the United States and Ukraine It is a signal for “Russian leadership that there is no fundamental difference between the goals of the American and Ukrainian nations,” said the Secretary of the US Treasury Scott Bessent on Thursday in an interview with Fox Business Network (American conservative business channel).

– Americans do not earn if Ukrainians do not make progress. Now we are fully agreeing in terms of economic issues. This is a strong signal for Russian leadership and gives President Trump the opportunity to negotiate with Russia From an even stronger position – he said.

– This agreement is a total economic partnership. These are not only the metals of rare lands, it is infrastructure, energy. The contract, therefore, gives both parties a chance to win – added Bessent.

Agreement on access to natural resources

On Wednesday United States And Ukraine signed a contract on access to the natural resources of Ukraine. The US Department of the Treasury reported that the United States and Ukraine signed a document on economic partnership and the creation of the American-Ukrainian Investment Fund for reconstruction.

The terms of the negotiated agreement are much more favorable for Ukraine than the initial US proposals and similar to those that the president Wołodymyr Zelanski He was to sign during a February visit to the White House. Contrary to the initial demands of the US, the agreement does not impose an obligation on Ukraine to repay past American military assistance with income from the operation of deposits.

Ukrainian deposits of raw materials are also to remain under the full control and property of Ukraine, while the fund itself is to be managed jointly by both sides. The American government is also to help attract additional investments and technologies to Ukraine using the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) agency.

Contrary to the expectations of Ukraine, the agreement does not assume specific guarantees of US security, but – according to The Washington Post ” – says about” long -term strategic covenant “of both countries and about” the support of the United States for the security of Ukraine, prosperity, reconstruction and integration with global economic frames. “

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