A comment piece published by the Sunday Leader in Sri Lanka suggests Liam Fox’s friend Adam Werrity was much more involved with the trip than has been previously implied.

The article was published on December 26th, 2010, after Fox and Werrity’s trip on 2nd December 2010.

It states that Werrity was closely involved in organising the trip:

On the 16th of December, Adam Werrity, the personal aide to British Secretary of Defence Liam Fox arrived in Sri Lanka. He arrived in advance to vet the arrangements that were being made for Liam Fox’s visit when he was expected to make the keynote speech at the Lakshman Kadirgamar commemoration. He first met with Mrs Suganthi Kadirgamar to go over the arrangements.

Werrity received an urgent message early next morning from England where he was informed that the visit to Sri Lanka by Liam Fox was suspended and that he should keep the Sri Lankan government advised. Adam Werrity then met with External Affairs Minister G.L Peiris and Sachin Waas Gunawardene, Monitor, External Affairs, the next morning to pass on this information.

He also changed his travel arrangements and was to leave Sri Lanka later that day. Minister G.L Peiris and Sachin Waas Gunawardene had then requested him to change the status of the cancellation of Liam Fox’s visit to Sri Lanka into a ‘postponement’ in order to prevent embarrassment to the government of Sri Lanka.

Accordingly Adam Weritty kept Liam Fox informed and the official version was changed to ‘postponed’.

A video report of the trip

The article goes on to say that Liam Fox’s trip was a “private visit” at the invitation and cost of the Sri Lankan government.

It also says the Sri Lankan government had “used” Liam Fox and the PR firm Bell Pottinger to “smoothen relationships” between the two countries.

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