{"id":33699,"date":"2025-04-19T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33699\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T19:26:12","slug":"ukraine-and-us-ink-memorandum-on-rare-earths-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/33699\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine and US ink memorandum on rare earths \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kyiv and Washington have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-us-minerals-deal-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hashing out the terms of such an agreement<\/a> for several months and were on the cusp of signing a deal in February \u2014 before a remarkably hostile White House meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spectacularly derailed the talks.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandum inked Thursday laid the groundwork \u201cfor an Economic Partnership Agreement and the establishment of the Investment Fund for the Reconstruction of Ukraine,\u201d Svyrydenko said, and reiterated U.S. support for a \u201cfree, sovereign, and secure Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAhead is the finalization of the text of the Agreement and its signing \u2014 and then, ratification by parliaments,\u201d she said, adding there remained \u201ca lot to do\u201d to get the deal over the line. \u201cBut the current pace and significant progress give reason to expect that the document will be very beneficial for both countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump said the U.S. and Ukraine could sign a \u201cminerals deal\u201d as soon as the following Thursday, April 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I assume they\u2019re [Ukraine] going to live up to the deal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-us-minerals-deal-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously refused<\/a> to agree to a deal that \u201c10 generations of Ukrainians will have to pay back.\u201d Trump at one point demanded proceeds from the development of Ukraine\u2019s natural resources amounting to $500 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyiv and Washington have been hashing out the terms of such an agreement for several months and were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10685,32,2440,1197,12,1771,1772,657,19655,49,2601,771,335,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-33699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-critical-raw-materials","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-giorgia-meloni","11":"tag-investment","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","14":"tag-u-s-politics","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-ukrainian-politics","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","19":"tag-war","20":"tag-war-in-ukraine","21":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114366277174744444","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}