Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the German car giant Volkswagen is planning to build a plant on the island.
The plant will purportedly placed in Kurunegala in the South, the prime minister said at a rally on Saturday.
Deputy Economic Policy Minister Harsha de Silva said in January that Volkswagen was trying to set up a plant on the island since 2008, but, for unspecified reasons, had not succeeded.
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