Washington and Kyiv sign raw material agreements-Diepresse.com

After a long struggle, the USA and Ukraine have agreed on the establishment of a reconstruction, which is also intended to provide the United States access to soil treasures in the country attacked by Russia. Both sides confirmed the agreement and signing on Wednesday evening (local time) in Washington. Details were hardly communicated. The agreement was concluded in a decisive phase of negotiations on a Ukraine peace treaty with Russia.

US President Donald Trump pushes both parties to a rapid end of the war in Ukraine and was most recently revealed by the lack of progress. In the past, the Republican massively put Ukraine under pressure on the resource question. He regarded potential profits from raw material reduction as compensation for the US financial and military support in the war against Russia.

According to the agreement now agreed, Trump emphasized that the United States would get much more back than they had invested so far. He confirmed that his perspective that an economic presence of the United States in Ukraine is also a security guarantee for the country. The US security guarantees demanded by Ukraine are hanging against Russia in the air. In any case, in the course of the signing of the agreement, they were not officially addressed. The agreement must be ratified by the Ukrainian parliament before entry into force.

Have signed US finance minister Scott Bessent And the Ukrainian vice government leader Julia Swryrydenko the contractual work in the US capital. The text of the agreement was initially not published. However, an investment fund for the joint exploitation of Ukrainian mineral resources is planned, which is intended to generate funds for the reconstruction of the state -destroyed country. The United States is given privileged access to Ukrainian resources – including metals of rare earths that are important and strategically significant for high technology.

Clear signal to Russia?

Besser did not become very concrete with a view to the content of the agreement, but was satisfied. The agreement is a clear signal to the Russian leadership that the Trump government campaigns for a peace process in the long term, at the center of which is « a free, sovereign and prospering Ukraine ».

Swyrydenko gave more details. The future reconstruction fund should invest in projects to promote minerals, oil and gas and infrastructure associated with it. « Ukraine and the United States will jointly determine the investment projects to be financed, » she wrote on Facebook. Only in Ukraine may be invested. In the first ten years, the fund should not distribute profits and income, but should be reinvested.

To meet concerns in Ukraine about a possible sale, Swrydenko emphasized that the fund was operated on an equal footing with the United States. Ukraine will not make its share in the fund from existing raw material projects, but will pay 50 percent of the income from future funding licenses or raw material sales. Swrydenkos provides her Facebook post with a harmonious-looking group photo, which she and improvements show in addition to satisfied smiling supporters.

Military aids do not repay

It was controversial in the negotiations as to whether Ukraine has had to repay the United States’ military and financial aids so far with the help of raw material exploitation. According to Swrydenkos, this is not the case.

The United States could also make its contribution to the fund with military aid, for example with anti -aircraft weapons, she explained. Ukraine does not have to bear any debts due to previous weapons or financial aid from the United States since the beginning of the Russian attack war in February 2022. In any of the partner countries, taxes should therefore apply to the income of the fund.

Negotiations on the agreement have been running since February. However, they stood after an unprecedented scandal between Trump, whose vice James Vance and the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskij in the White House in front of failure. After all, both countries were able to agree on a new attempt. In mid -April, Kyiv and Washington signed a declaration of intent to conclude the raw material agreement.

Ownership of Ukraine

The actual agreement must be ratified by the Ukrainian parliament before entry into force. Prime minister Denys Schmyhal Insured before signing the deal: « Ukraine keeps control of its resources. This means that soil treasures, infrastructure, raw materials are not part or a prerequisite for the fund or the agreement. »

Selenskij had proposed the agreement last autumn to appeal to Trump’s self -image as a businessman and to maintain security guarantees in the United States. After everything that is known, the hope of such guarantees was not fulfilled.

Last weekend, Selenskij came together in Rome on the edge of the funeral service after the death of Pope Francis for a conversation with Trump. Pictures of how the two statesmen sitting on two armchairs went around the world. When asked about what he said Selenskij, Trump now replied on US television that he advised the Ukrainian to sign an agreement « because Russia is much bigger and much stronger ». Meanwhile, Russia continued its war of attack on Thursday night with undiminished hardness. (APA/dpa)