The People’s Deputy of Ukraine Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Voice faction) spoke about the procedure of ratification of the Mining Agreement with the United States and further steps to put it into force.
“Today at 14:00 meetings of the Committee on International Policy. They will approve the draft law on ratification,” – He wrote In the telegram on Tuesday.
Zheleznyak noted that “there they want, to make a pass of opposition and the type to prescribe in the text the decision of the Committee, that the two other agreements of Parliament do not know the type of responsibility.”
“But this is a purely political trick…. Some deputies voted,” he added.
According to him, in the period 6-8 May “Sviridenko, Duck, Sobolev and Ulyutin will be found with fractions. They will not be given at once that the texts will not be provided because the type there is NDA on dissemination (English.
It is expected that on May 8 in the afternoon it will vote. “I will say immediately that there are no intrigues here, because: voices are so; just in case with some friendly fractions have already agreed;
“Everything from the council. Well, the truth must be changed, including the Budget Code,” he added.
Zheleznyak also painted the following steps to put into force the agreement in full with the “technical” agreements.
“Next are the two agreements that no one has seen. They are inter -institutional:
1. A Limited Partnership Agreement (Fund):
Here are the parties: DFC (US Corporation) and the Ukrainian Private Partnership Agency (PPP Agency).
The agreement defines the mechanism of creation, financing, structure of management of the Fund.
It can be signed immediately after ratification of the intergovernmental agreement by the Council.
2. Further agreement on the creation of a “General Partner”:
A structure that will be a general partner (3 Ukrainian and 3 American representatives) is created. And this third agreement defines the rules of management of the Fund, the configuration of decision making, etc. ”.
Zheleznyak stressed that “it is important that most likely the General Partner (GP) is a company registered with Delavara (USA), which officially joins the fund by signing this partnership agreement. This company operates on behalf of the entire fund and is responsible for its management. Financing also creates and manages the Investment Committee, which approves investments. ”
According to Zheleznyak, none of these agreements should be ratified by Congress, “therefore, all political decisions are here.”
As reported, Ukraine and the United States concluded a framework agreement on economic partnership on April 30. It was signed by the first Viceremier – Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko and US Finance Minister Scott Bessent, it referred to the creation of an investment fund of US -Ukraine reconstruction.
Recently, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmigal expressed expectations that the Verkhovna Rada ratifies the signed agreement by May 8. The “technical” agreements have not been signed or published.
