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I will not accept [even] 10 cents of debt repayment in this deal. Otherwise, it will be a precedent,
No, in fact, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60% of the total effort. It was like the US: loans, guarantees, grants,
They get their money back. We gave it in the form of nothing. So I want them to give us something for all of the money that we’ve put up,
There is a general clause that says America will invest in a stable and prosperous sovereign Ukraine, that it works for a lasting peace, and that America supports efforts to guarantee security. Now, the government is working on the details,
If the Ukrainian leader says the deal isn’t finalized, I don’t see why an invitation would make sense,
the official told Reuters They say this gives him (Trump) real skin in the game. I think there is real logic to that,
Macron himself endorsed this plan, he saw it as being something as significant, that could potentially lead to the beginnings of a true peace negotiation,
Al Jazeera’s Stratford said It’s OK to be transactional,
said Fallon, ... she said This is hugely significant, because certainly, according to the Ukrainians we’ve been speaking to all week, this [deal] is seen as a means for Donald Trump to basically get what he wants,
Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford said We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars on Russia and Ukraine fighting a war that should have never, ever happened.”
He reiterated this on Tuesday, saying I didn’t let the ministers sign a relevant agreement because in my view it is not ready to protect us, our interest,
Zelenskyy was quoted as saying by the Associated Press during the Munich Security Conference on February 15. Donald Trump appears to have broken all norms in international policy by doing this, and he’s losing a lot of US soft power by being so transactional,
Theresa Fallon, director of the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies and a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera After [President] Donald Trump’s remarks last week … it is clear that this government does not care much about the fate of Europe,
he said, calling for German “independence” from the US About five percent of all the world’s ‘critical raw materials’ are located in Ukraine, which occupies only 0.4 percent of the Earth’s surface,
Svetlana Grinchuk, Ukraine’s deputy minister of environmental protection and natural resources, said during a UN meeting in 2022 One cannot count up to $500bn and say, ‘Give us back $500bn in minerals.’ That’s not a serious discussion,
Zelenskyy said on February 19. This peace must allow for Ukrainian sovereignty and allow Ukraine to negotiate with other stakeholders,
Macron said after meeting with Trump in Washington Yes, there is a tentative date, as the US president mentioned – Friday. The [presidential - ed.] offices are in contact,
I want to coordinate with the U.S.,
Ukrainian and US teams are in the final stages of negotiations regarding the minerals agreement."
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine's deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration Of course, neither the president nor the government would ever sign or consider ... a colonial treaty that did not take into account the interests of the state."
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