The United States and Ukraine: An agreement on rare land and the Reconstruction Fund

EDOARDO GIRIBALDI – VATICAN CIDAD

The United States and Ukraine have signed an agreement that allows Washington to reach the minerals rare lands in Kiev in exchange for establishing an investment fund to rebuild the country after the conflict. US Treasury Secretary Scott Besent said in a statement that the agreement, which he reached after weeks of intense negotiations, is harmful to the United States “to end this harsh war that is meaningless.” This agreement clearly explains to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to the peace process that focuses on free, self -and prosperous Ukraine in the long term. To be clear, no state or individual may benefit or provide Russian war materials from rebuilding Ukraine.

Shared background

At the Convention Center, the “Investment Fund for Reconstruction between the United States and Ukraine”, which both countries will contribute and supervise together. The benefits of the fund will be invested exclusively in Ukraine, which will not be asked to pay any “debt”, as Prime Minister Dennis Shammal said. He added that Kiev will control “full soil, infrastructure and natural resources, and the agreement will only finance mining, oil and gas projects, as well as infrastructure and processing in Ukraine during the first ten years,” and then “the benefits can be distributed among the partners.”

Conditions of the agreement

In its personal file, Ukraine Economy Minister Yulia Sfridino explained that it is the European country that “determines what and the place of extraction.” He added: “The transfer and development of technologies is an important element in the agreement, because we do not only need investments, but also innovation.” He added that the agreement will not affect Ukraine’s request to integrate into the European Union. As part of the agreement, Washington will also provide new assistance to KyIV, which can include, for example, air defense systems. According to the Ukrainian minister, the agreement states that the income and contributions of the fund will not be imposed by either of the two countries. It is not yet clear whether the agreement also included an explicit guarantee of safety by the United States, which is something that Zelinski insisted during all negotiations.

Dialogues outside the funeral of Pope Francis

The agreement, the reports of the American series CNN He arrived a few hours after the last minute disputes that threatened to remove the agreement. In phone data to Newsnation To answer the citizens ’questions, US President Donald Trump said that he signed an agreement to“ protect ”the contribution of Washington in the war effort, adding that he had told Ukrainian President Voludimir Zelinski during his weekend meeting away from the funeral of Pope Francis,“ It would be a great thing ”if he signed the agreement because“ Russia is much greater. “Ukraine has deposits of 22 out of 50 materials classified as critics by the geological service of the United States. These minerals include rare ground, other basic materials for the production of electronic products, clean energy technologies and some arms systems.