{"id":84603,"date":"2025-05-08T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84603\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:32:08","slug":"trump-ukraine-minerals-deal-gets-green-light-from-parliament-in-kyiv-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84603\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Ukraine minerals deal gets green light from parliament\u00a0in Kyiv \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Initially, Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/minerals-deal-will-only-succeed-if-trump-offers-security-guarantees-zelenskyy-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wanted<\/a> Washington to provide security guarantees and new aid in exchange for critical minerals. But the U.S. didn\u2019t offer that, and instead demanded Kyiv pay back all the money that was agreed as aid, while getting preferential access and essentially control over most of Ukraine\u2019s natural resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a tense debate, both parties agreed on no debt for Kyiv, the promise of an equal partnership and even new weapons sales for Kyiv \u2014 but still no clear security guarantees from the United States, even as Putin\u2019s war grinds on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump believed [the deal] would create more leverage for him with the Russian leadership when it was time to go to them. The idea was to start with Ukraine, sign the deal that shows the U.S. is still there. It would be a symbol to the American public, skeptical of more financial commitments, that it was possible to have a shared prosperity with Ukraine. In essence, it would be a tacit security guarantee as an economic partnership,\u201d Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/milkeninstitute.org\/content-hub\/event-panels\/part-1-conversation-us-secretary-treasury-scott-bessent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at the Milken Institute Global Conference on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes after the blowup, you end up with a better deal \u2026 I think it is a win-win. What it is not is \u2018sign here and it is a loan-to-own. You\u2019re going to default on the debt, we\u2019re going to own all your minerals.\u2019 This is an economic partnership. They put assets, we put in capital from DFC (U.S. International Development and Finance Corporation), it\u2019s 50\/50. It\u2019s equity, not debt,\u201d Bessent added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initially, Ukraine wanted Washington to provide security guarantees and new aid in exchange for critical minerals. But the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[10685,32,2000,299,332,1771,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-84603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-critical-raw-materials","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-vladimir-putin","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","18":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114472233165349633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84603","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=84603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}