MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Not a single dollar has been invested under the minerals agreement between Ukraine and the United States, Ukrainian economist Oleg Pendzin said in an interview with the UNIAN agency.
"I am very skeptical about the minerals agreement with the United States. In Ukraine, there are almost no state lands within which subsoil resources would be located, and they have not been surveyed in years. We need to invest huge money into doing geological exploration anew, to figure out who owns this land now, and to buy it - this land, including land used for agricultural purposes," the expert noted.
According to him, the government needs to move on this issue now. "By the time the first dollar is invested, there will be a huge number of purely legal issues. Pay attention to when [Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia] Svridenko signed this agreement - has any company invested even one dollar here since then? No," the expert stated.
Investors are also worried about security, Pendzin claims. And as long as hostilities continue, the issue of security remains unresolved, he concluded.
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