Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bhutan)

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Kingdom of Bhutan དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་།
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade ཕྱི་འབྲལ་དང་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལྷན་ཁག།
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Jurisdiction Government of Bhutan
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Website www.mfa.gov.bt

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.

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

Departments

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for:

List of ministers

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

No.Name
(Birth–Death)
PortraitTenure
1 Dawa Tsering
(1935–2007)
No image.png 1972–1998
2 Jigme Thinley
(b. 1952)
Jigme Thinley (cropped).jpg 1998–2003
3 Khandu Wangchuk
(b. 1950)
Khandu Wangchuk (cropped).jpg 2003–2007
Yeshey Dorji
Acting Minister
Yeshey Dorji (cropped).jpg 2007–2008
4 Ugyen Tshering
(b. 1954)
Ugyen Tshering (cropped).jpg 2008–2013
5 Rinzin Dorji
(b. 1964)
Rinzin Dorji (cropped).JPG 2013–2015
6 Damcho Dorji
(b. 1965)
Damcho Dorji 2016 (cropped).jpg 2015–2018
Tshering Wangchuk
Advisor
Tshering Wangchuk (cropped).JPG 2018
7 Tandi Dorji
(b. 1968)
Deputy Secretary Sullivan Meets with Foreign Minister Tandi Dorji in Thimphu, Bhutan (48526062911) (cropped).jpg 2018–present

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References

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