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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 ...
Bhutan is currently a member of 45 international organizations. [5] Under Article 20 of the Constitution of Bhutan enacted in 2008, Bhutan's foreign relations fall under the purview of the Druk Gyalpo on the advice of the Executive, namely the Prime Minister and other Ministers of the Lhengye Zhungtshog including the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Until 1999, Bhutan's Cabinet consisted of a council of Ministers chaired by King Jigme Singye Wangchuck. In 1999, as a major step toward democratization, the King dissolved the existing cabinet and withdrew from his role in the decision-making in the cabinet. Six new ministers were nominated, placed before the National Assembly, and voted in as ...
Countries that host only Bhutanese consulates or permanent missions to international organizations. This is a list of diplomatic missions of Bhutan. The landlocked and isolationist Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has a very limited number of diplomatic missions abroad. As of 2022, Bhutan operates 6 embassies, 3 consulates, and 2 permanent missions.
British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan and Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Max van der Stoel in 1975. In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and relations, diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providing support ...
Bhutan–United States relations. Prime Minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2015. Bhutan and the United States have no formal diplomatic relations, but relations between the two nations are viewed as "friendly and close", due to shared values between the two countries. The increasingly close ...
Jigme was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan from 1998 until 2003 and subsequently served as Minister of Home and Cultural Affairs. In March 2008, he stood as leader of the political party Druk Phuensum Tshogpa in Bhutan's first democratic election.
University of Canberra. Tandi Dorji ( Dzongkha: རྟ་མགྲིན་རྡོ་རྗེ་, Wylie : Rta mgrin rdo rje; born 2 September 1968) [1] is a Bhutanese politician who served as Foreign Minister for Bhutan from November 2018 to 2024. [2] [3] He has been a member of the National Assembly of Bhutan, since October 2018.