U.S. and Ukraine plan to sign a mineral agreement, Trump will announce it today
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According to Reuters, four people familiar with the matter said the Trump administration and Ukraine plan to sign a mineral agreement at an Oval Office meeting on Friday. Trump has told his advisers that he hopes to announce the deal when he speaks to Congress on Tuesday night. Despite last week's quarrel, U.S. officials have talked with Ukrainian officials in recent days about signing the mineral agreement, one of the people familiar with the matter said. It is not clear whether the agreement has changed. The agreement originally scheduled to be signed last week did not include clear security assurances for Ukraine, but allowed the United States to earn income from Ukraine's natural resources. The agreement also envisions the Ukrainian government donating 50% of the future monetization of all state-owned natural resources to a reconstruction investment fund managed by the U.S. and Ukraine.