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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JurisdictionGovernment of Bhutan
Agency executives
Websitewww.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.

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

Departments

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for:

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

List of ministers

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–present

See also

References

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


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