The USA require from the Ukraine To sign two additional documents along with their agreement on minerals, a source said today.
Kiev believes that the two additional documents need more processing. The Financial Times said the signing of the agreement between Ukraine and the US could be called into question because Washington demands that Kiev agree not only the framework agreement but also on an annex to setting up an investment fund.
According to Reuters sources, these are two additional documents, which, in Ukraine’s view, need more processing, but Washington insists that the Ukrainian side must sign them today.
As the FT wrote, Ukraine insists that the agreement on the creation of an investment fund, which will go to revenue from the extraction of mineral wealth, must initially be ratified by the Ukrainian Parliament.
The Ukrainian Prime Minister said Kiev and Washington could sign the mineral agreement within the next 24 hours after the latest details were determined.
The recasting agreement has become a “actual partnership agreement”, which could consider future US aid as part of the contributions to the Investment Fund, Prime Minister Denis Smichal said in his television statements.
“I think maybe late at night the time the deal may be signed,” the Ukrainian government’s source at Reuters said.