Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bhutan)

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (ཕྱི་འབྲལ་དང་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལྷན་ཁག) is the Bhutanese government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Bhutan. The Royal Government of Bhutan established the Development Ministry in 1968, which was a precursor to the institution of the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970 and subsequent up gradation to a full-fledged ministry in 1972.

Kingdom of Bhutan དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་།
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade ཕྱི་འབྲལ་དང་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལྷན་ཁག།
Agency overview
JurisdictionGovernment of Bhutan
Agency executives
Websitewww.mfa.gov.bt

Bhutan has established diplomatic relations with 52 countries and the European Union.

Departments

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for:

  • Department of Bilateral Affairs
  • Department of Multilateral Affairs
  • Department of Protocol

List of ministers

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This is a list of ministers of foreign affairs of Bhutan:[1]

No. Name
(Birth–Death)
Portrait Tenure
1 Dawa Tsering
(1935–2007)
  1972–1998
2 Jigme Thinley
(b. 1952)
  1998–2003
3 Khandu Wangchuk
(b. 1950)
  2003–2007
Yeshey Dorji
Acting Minister
  2007–2008
4 Ugyen Tshering
(b. 1954)
  2008–2013
5 Rinzin Dorji
(b. 1964)
  2013–2015
6 Damcho Dorji
(b. 1965)
  2015–2018
Tshering Wangchuk
Advisor
  2018
7 Tandi Dorji
(b. 1968)
  2018–2024
8 D. N. Dhungyel   2024–present

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Foreign ministers A–D". rulers.org. B. Schemmel. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
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