Officials from the U.S. and Ukraine met on Friday to discuss White home proposals for a mineral agreement. Donald Trump wants Kiev to hand over its natural resources as a "pay" for weapons supplied by the Biden administration, writes "The Guardian".
The negotiations of the agreement are becoming increasingly fierce, writes a journal, based on Reuters reports. The latest U.S. task is more "maximumist" than the first version of February, which proposed that Washington be given 500 billion dollars of uncommon metals, as well as oil and gas.
Donald Trump has a fresh request for Ukraine. It's a key gas pipeline.
According to reports from the "Financial Times" and Bloomberg, the United States requested Ukraine to renegotiate the previously agreed but not signed text of the agreement on natural materials. The fresh version proposed by the US is intended to enable Washington to have extended control over the exploitation, sale and exploitation of Ukrainian natural resources.
citing a origin close to talks, The Guardian writes that The latest paper calls for the US global corp for Financing improvement to take control of the gas pipeline from western Russia to Uzhhorod and further to Europe. The gas pipeline built in russian times is simply a key component of national infrastructure and the main way of Russian gas transport to Western Europe.
Volodymyr Landa, a elder economist at the Center for economical Strategy, a Kiev think tank, said the Americans want “all they can get”. However, in his opinion, their demands for a "colonial type" have small chance of being accepted by Kiev.
Volodymyr Zelenski is ready to make a deal with the US. It speaks of a ‘parity’
In the autumn of last year Volodymyr Zelenski proposed granting the US access to the underdeveloped mineral sector of Ukraine. He anticipated an agreement that the fresh Trump administration would supply Ukraine with weapons in exchange for future profits from joint investments.
Instead, Trump refused to accept safety commitments or military support, but inactive wants minerals. Last week, he complained that Zelenski was trying to “resist out of the deal” and said that the president of Ukraine would have “big problems” if he did not sign it, he wrote “The Guardian”.
When talking to journalists on Thursday, Zelenski said he was ready to enter into an agreement to modernise his country, but Ukraine can only agree to it if there is simply a "parity" between the 2 parties and the income is divided "equally".
– I'm just defending what belongs to Ukraine. This should be beneficial for both the United States and Ukraine. This is the right thing to do," said Zelenski
