According to Bloomberg's agency, Ukraine demands more investments from the United States as part of negotiating a raw material agreement. The agency refers to the content of the natural raw materials agreement and its own sources among negotiators working on its shape.
The Ukrainian side depends on significant changes in this document. According to Ukrainians, its current shape can play Kiev aspirations to join the European Union. In addition, the content of the document would suggest that Ukrainians must return the value of financial and military assistance to Washington from the beginning of the Russian full -scale invasion.
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The agency reported that a meeting took place on Friday, in which representatives of Ukraine participated and USA. Ukrainian negotiators presented their fears, and the American side showed understanding – revealed, wanting to maintain anonymity, a representative of the Ukrainian negotiating team.
President of Ukraine Wołodymyr Zelanski He pointed out on Friday that the contract cannot stand in the EU in the way of Ukraine, because joining this organization is enrolled in the Ukrainian constitution. At the same time, he expressed amazement that some deputies to the parliament of his country disseminate news about the contract. Some of them sharply criticized this document when Bloomberg and the “Financial Times” revealed its content on Thursday morning.
The US demands “pre -emption right”
According to the working version of the document submitted to the Ukrainian side, the administration Donald Trump He demands the “right of pre -emption”. If the agreement was concluded in this form, it would mean the unprecedented economic expansion of the USA in the largest territorial state of Europe at the time when Ukraine strives to get closer with the European Union.
The agreement would grant the US priority to the profits transferred to the Special Investment Fund of Reconstruction, which would be controlled by Washington. Importantly, the document states that the US considers “material and financial benefits” provided with Ukraine since the full -size invasion Russia In February 2022, for its contribution to this fund. As a result, this would mean that Trump's administration would force Ukraine to pay for all American military and economic support granted from the beginning of the war, before Kiev could derive any income from the partner fund, Bloomberg said.
In addition, according to the project, the US government would have the right to buy Ukrainian metals, minerals as well as oil and gas, regardless of whether the fund (under American control) financed a given mining project. The contract has no time limit. According to her, Kyiv would not have the right to sell minerals. The agreement would also forbid the Kiev sales of critical minerals to the states, which are “strategic competitors” of the US – said the American agency
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Source: PAP
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