Rubio announced the instructions of Trump and Zelensky to finalize the resource deal

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have instructed their teams to resume work on the joint mining deal and finalize it. This was announced on March 10 by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

He clarified that this issue was raised during the negotiations of the delegations of the states in Saudi Arabia. According to him, the deal will definitely be completed.

"This was discussed today, and it will be done," Rubio told reporters after the meeting in Jeddah.

In addition, he added that discussing the deal was not the key goal of the negotiations. The Secretary of State noted that the delegations initially discussed issues of peace in Ukraine.

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On the eve of the special envoy of the American president for the Middle East, Stephen Witkoff, noted that the United States hopes for progress in signing a deal with Ukraine on rare earth minerals this week. The American leader said on March 9 that he was still waiting for the signing of a deal on rare earths.