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Pool - Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
1. Pan from guard in uniform to plane taxiing
2. Wide shot of guard of honour
3. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip climbing down stairs
4. Guards
5. Queen with Nigerian President Obasanjo
6. Guns
7. Wide shot of Queen walking past guard of honour
8. Close up Queen
9. Queen and Obasanjo entering ceremony
10. Cutaway audience
11. Cutaway of Prince Philip
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian President
"Her Majesty's visit to Nigeria is indeed, very significant and it is a momentous occasion for every Nigerian."
13. Audience
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Queen Elizabeth II
"My country particularly applauds the leading part the Nigerian government and people are playing in the new partnership for Africa's development and the international communities developments to bring peace and stability to Liberia, Sierra Leone and other nations wracked by conflict in West Africa. It is fitting that Nigeria should host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this year (CHOGM)."
15. Obasanjo and Queen meeting and greeting
APTN - Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
16. Welcome to Abuja sign
17. CHOGM 2003 on sign
18. Security
19. Various of summit building
20. Flags of Commonwealth member nations
APTN - Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Penny Russell-Smith, Queen's Press Secretary
"The Commonwealth is very much a voluntary association and voluntary means precisely that so it is very much a decision for President Mugabe and the Queen would certainly see it that way."
APTN - Karu, near Abuja, Nigeria - December 3, 2003
21. Wide shot of people by sign for local government building
22. Various of dancers practicing ahead of Queen's visit on Wednesday
STORYLINE:
Queen Elizabeth II returned to Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday for her first visit in nearly a half-century, leading heads of government to the West African giant of Nigeria for a 52-nation summit of Britain and its former colonies.
Conspicuously absent among arriving leaders was Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe - his nation suspended from Commonwealth leadership councils, and Mugabe himself specifically banned from the summit.
Commonwealth organisers said they want the four-day gathering to promote what they called the "twin engines" of society - democracy and development - even in countries like repressively governed Zimbabwe, and heavily militarily influenced Pakistan.
It was the queen's first visit to Nigeria since 1956, when she was just four years into her reign.
Nigeria - then Britain's most-crowded remaining colony - still stood four years away from independence.
On Wednesday, traditional singers and dancers with faces painted white greeted Elizabeth's arrival at Abuja's airport.
President Olusegun Obasanjo, whose 1999 election closed 15 years of military rule and Nigeria's own shunning by the Commonwealth, welcomed the queen and her husband, Prince Philip.
The 77-year-old British monarch will open the summit on Friday, after a two-day state visit.
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