KIEV, July 24 – The State Property Fund is studying the possibility of returning Kherson Engineering Plant Ltd. to state ownership.

"I have launched such a procedure, and the State Property Fund is currently considering ways to return this plant to state ownership," Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk region.

According to the premier, only after the enterprise is returned to public ownership will the government resume cooperation with it and take responsibility for it.