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
Jurisdiction	Government of Bhutan
Agency executives	D. N. Dhungyel, Minister of Foreign Affairs Pema Choden, Foreign Secretary
Website	www.mfa.gov.bt

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)		2018–2024
8	D. N. Dhungyel		2024–present

See also

• Foreign relations of Bhutan
• List of diplomatic missions of Bhutan
• List of diplomatic missions in Bhutan

References

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

External links

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs