(27 Jul 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Exterior of Nepal's president's office
2. Wide of British actress Joanna Lumley at meeting inside
3. Various of Lumley
4. Wide/zoom in to Lumley greeting Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav, handshake
5. Wide shot of photographers
6. Lumley giving gifts to Yadav
7. Lumley posing for photographers with Yadav
8. Lumley leaving after the meeting
9. Lumley arriving in a car at the British embassy
10. Close up shot of Gurkha memorial at the embassy compound
11. Cutaway people watching
12. Gurkha soldier carrying a wreath
13. Lumley arriving with British ambassador Andrew Hall
14. Lumley being handed wreath and laying it at the memorial
15. Close up shot of Lumley
16. Musicians playing traditional Nepalese instruments to welcome Lumley at a Katmandu hotel for an honorary reception
17. Various of Gurkha veterans and families welcoming Lumley
18. Close of medals worn by Ghurka
19. Musician
20. Mid of Lumley
21. Various of Lumley entering ceremony
22. Mid of Lumley standing inside
23. Top shot of Lumley going up stairs, she waves at camera
STORYLINE
Nepal's prime minister on Monday thanked "Absolutely Fabulous" actress Joanna Lumley for her outspoken campaign to give thousands of Gurkha war veterans and their families the right to settle in Britain.
Gurkhas have been serving as soldiers for the British for nearly 200 years, but Britain had limited their right to settle there, saying allowing
in tens of thousands of veterans and their families would cost taxpayers (b) billions.
Lumley - who in the TV comedy series played Patsy, a chain-smoking magazine editor who slept her way to the top - became the face of their
campaign.
She said she was drawn to the cause because her father fought alongside Gurkha soldiers in World War II.
In May, the British government agreed to allow thousands of Gurkhas the automatic right to settle there.
Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and President Ram Baran Yadav thanked Lumley on Monday.
Earlier in the day, Gurkha veterans honoured Lumley at city hall in the capital, Katmandu.
Since 2004, Britain had allowed only those Gurkhas who retired after July 1, 1997, to settle there.
It had argued that those who retired before 1997 - when the Gurkha base was in Hong Kong, then a British colony - had weak links with Britain.
The Gurkhas have served Britain with distinction since 1815.
In some years, as many as 60 thousand seek to join the British military.
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