Sri Lanka, March 22 -- Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in Parliament yesterday that the main shareholder in the proposed project to build an oil refinery in Hambantota was not the Oman Government. However, he said if the Oman Government is interested, they will have to take a 40% stake in the project.The Prime Minister noted that Minister Nalin Bandara had responded to a question that was posed to him about the Oman Government's interest in a 30% stake in this project.

He said this in response to a question posed by UPFA-MP Kanchana Wijesekara.

MP Kanchana Wijesekara said in Parliament yesterday that three days ago Minister Nalin Bandara had revealed during a press briefing about the biggest foreign investment to be made by Oma...