Ukraine will now send a team to the US next week on conversations about a new draft mineral business star-news.press/wp

Kiev, Ukraine – Ukraine will send a team to Washington next week to start negotiations on a new draft contract to provide now access Ukraine valuable mineral raw materialsThe Minister of Economy Yuliia Svyrydenko told the associated press.

“The new draft of the U.S. Agreement shows that the intention of creating a fund or joint investment remains,” said Svyrydenko on Saturday, during the trip to Northern Ukraine.

The Kyiv delegation will include representatives from the Ministries of Economy, Foreign Affairs, Justice and Finance.

Long-term mineral agreement negotiations have already found the relations between Kiev and Washington. The two sides prepared in February for the signing of the Framework Agreement, but the plan was released after a a controversial meeting In oval office between the US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

After some Ukrainian legislators leaked a new draft, critics slammed him only more than trying to take off Kyiv control over his own natural resources and infrastructure. According to the leaked document, the new draft includes not only rare minerals, but gas and oil.

Ukraine has significant deposits more than 20 minerals that are now considered strategically critical by the U.S., including titanium, which is used to make aircraft wings, lithium, key for several batteries and uranium technologies.

Despite the disruption after the office of the office meeting, they showed interest in signing a framework job at any time, seeing it as an important step in order to won the President Donald Trump and fits us against the Russian invasion in full-scale.

After a few weeks of silence about the status of the contract, the United States has sent a new draft Kyiv, which goes further from the original framework.

It is unclear why it was now decided to circumvent the signing of the framework work and instead moved forward with a more comprehensive draft agreement, which would probably require ratification of the Ukraine Parliament.

However, Ukrainian officials were cautious about the commenting content of the draft, emphasizing that it is currently reflected in just one side.

“What we now have is a document that reflects the position of the US cash office’s legal team,” Svyrydenko said. “This is not the final version, it’s not a common position.”

She said that now the Ukrainian task is to compile a technical negotiation team, define their red lines and fundamental principles and send a delegation to Washington for technical conversations.

“It is clear that the full parameters of this agreement cannot be discussed online,” said Svyrydenko. “We have to sit with teams and continue the conversation in person.”

Legal, investment and financial advisors were selected, she said.

“This means a new phase in relations with the United States – the one who requires expertise in several areas,” she said. “Finally, everything will decide during the negotiations.”

Svyrydenko refused to work publicly at the official evaluation of Ukraine’s new draft, but he noted that there is now a more detailed document that has made the creation of the Fund. And while the initial draft focused primarily on the intention of establishing a fund, Allyrydenko said that the latest version exhibits how American counselors predict his structure and work.

It remains unclear what the role of Ukraine would play in the fund management under the newly draft American us. However, analysts who have reviewed the leaked document said the inclusion of Kyiva would be the minimum – the point of Ukraine hopes to cause the next negotiations, using the previously agreed frame as your reference.

Previous version of the Framework Agreement, obtained by an associate, presented plans for joint installation and managed investment fund between the United States and Ukraine, intended to support the reconstruction of the war economies in Ukraine.

Under the conditions, Ukraine would allocate 50% of future revenues generated by key national assets – including minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas and other extraction resources – in the Fund.

The Framework Agreement that has never signed, stated that revenues from his natural resources will go to the Fund and use the country’s restoration, and not to make ownership or control of these resources transfer to the United States.

“We are very focused on ensuring that the final draft agreement, after the negotiation, fully harmonize with our strategic interests,” Sveyrydenko said. “I believe that work on the previous memorandum has shown that both teams are capable of achieving these goals and agree to concepts acceptable for both parties.”