Reuters
A framework agreement outlining U.S. access to revenues from Ukraine’s natural resources in exchange for security guarantees has legal gaps that must be filled in future negotiations, four experts told Reuters a day before the countries’ leaders meet in Washington.
A draft of the deal seen by Reuters outlines the creation of a joint U.S.-Ukraine-managed “Reconstruction Investment Fund.” It contains reassuring language, but the United States does not offer Kyiv the security guarantees it craves.
That is not surprising and is what would be expected from a framework agreement, said Brian McGarry, assistant professor of international law at Leiden University, who has advised developing states on treaty negotiations.
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