KIEV. July 15 – Fifteen large funds hold the major part of Ukraine's sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt, Vitaliy Lisovenko, the Ukrainian government's special envoy for state debt negotiations, said in an interview with Segodnya newspaper.

The largest of them is Franklin Templeton, he said.

"These funds are institutions that accumulate funds of investors. The owners of the funds are not owners of the funds. In addition, eurobonds, the form of foreign debt they hold, is a tool which is freely traded on the market and they could change the holder at any moment," Lisovenko said.