{"id":49121,"date":"2026-06-08T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=49121"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:37:55","slug":"foreign-minister-khanal-holds-virtual-meeting-with-british-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/foreign-minister-khanal-holds-virtual-meeting-with-british-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Khanal holds virtual meeting with British Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 8: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shisir Khanal on Monday held a virtual meeting with the Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, John Healey and Defence Minister for Veterans and People Louise Sandher-Jones.<br \/>\nIssuing a press statement Monday, the Ministry stated that the meeting primarily focused on the British Gurkhas\u2019 unresolved long-standing grievances including the demand for proportionate pensions.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, Minister Khanal stressed the need for a mutually agreeable solution to the British Gurkha grievances at the earliest possible time, highlighting the significance of the British Gurkhas in the Nepal-UK relations,<br \/>\nHe requested the British Government to demonstrate from the perspective of justice, fairness and respect to address these issues, according to the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of the Secretary of State John Healey, Minister for Veterans and People Louise Sandher-Jones reaffirmed her commitment to working closely with the Nepali side to address the issues of the British Gurkha veterans.<br \/>\nEarlier today, Minister Khanal had a virtual interaction with the representatives of the British Gurkha veterans based in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 8: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shisir Khanal on Monday held a virtual meeting with the Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, John Healey and Defence Minister for Veterans and People Louise Sandher-Jones. Issuing a press statement Monday, the Ministry stated that the meeting primarily focused on the British Gurkhas\u2019 unresolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49124,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49121\/revisions\/49124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}