After days of tension and blow and response, hot response, a sign of relaxation between USA and UKRAIN. In fact, the white smoke between Washington and Kiev appears on the rare earth for a value of 500 billion dollars. The agreement had been blocked seven days ago by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky for the head conditions imposed by Donald Trump, unleashing the wrath of the head of the White House. Now, however, the agreement seems one step away from the signature.
According to what was made known by the Financial Times and confirmed by a high Ukrainian official, the two countries have agreed on the terms of the ceiling. According to what the Ukrainian manager reiterated on the microphones of the FP, the white smoke came when the United States have the unfavorable clauses eliminated. The signature could arrive already on Friday. More cautiously the White House, which in the evening briefing has argued that “there are no significant updates on the agreement on rare lands”.
Entering in detail, the draft understanding does not contain explicit Security guarantees for Ukrainebut Kiev officials have kept underlining that they have negotiated better conditions. The agreement is seen as a way to expand the relationships with the US and consolidate the perspectives of the country after three years of war. So to the Financial Times Olha Stefanishyna, deputy prime minister and minister of Ukrainian justice who led the negotiations: “The agreement on minerals is only a part of the picture. We have heard several times by the US administration which is part of a wider picture “.
The document provides for a fund in which Kiev would contribute with 50% of the proceeds deriving from the “future monetization” of the mining of state ownership, including oil and gas, and associated logistics. The ok of the ministers of justice, economy and foreign have already arrived, now the wait is linked to Zelensky’s journey to the White House: “This will be an opportunity for the president to discuss what the general picture is. And then, we will be able to think about the next steps ”.
“We have practically negotiated our agreement on rare lands. We want our money back, the American taxpayers will re -enact their money back ”the official position of Trump, who remarked as in exchange for the agreement on rare lands would obtain “the right to continue fighting“:” They are very courageous, but without the United States, their money and their military equipment, this war would have ended up in a very short period of time “.
In the meantime i Negotiations between the USA and Russia They seem to move more and more towards the business. Moscow has emphasized the “vast opportunities” for the extraction of rare lands with a rich Russian subsoil in collaboration with Washington. But that’s not all. In fact, a European collaboration plan with Ukraine on “Critical Materials” also appears, as the European Commissioner for Industrial Strategy, Stephane Sejourne, presented it, visiting Kiev yesterday. But between Trump and Putin the first step must be “the solution of the Ukrainian crisis”. After that, Peskov highlighted, the two countries will be able to devote themselves to “commercial, economic and investment projects”. Among the first sectors that can be taken into consideration, the extraction of rare lands, because “America needs it and we have in abundance”.
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