Press Release

Ambassador Tshering Lhadn paid a courtesy call on Prof. Celeste Saulo, Secretary General of World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) on 09 October 2025. During the meeting, the two discussed on further strengthening partnership between Bhutan and WMO. Bhutan became a member of WMO in 2003. Since then, it has supported Bhutan with capacity building of RGoB officials as well as various ...

H.E. Ms. Tshering Lhadn paid a courtesy call on Ms. Rebeca Grynspan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on 6 October 2025. Ms. Grynspan assured Bhutan of UNCTAD’s continued support for any assistance it may require.

H.E. Ms. Tshering Lhadn presented her credentials to Ms. Tatiana Valovaya, Director General of the United Nations Office in Geneva on 10 September 2025. Ambassador Lhadn is the 11th Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva. She previously served as the Director of the Department of Economic and Tech Diplomacy at the Ministry ...

Bhutan will host the Global Peace Prayer Festival 2025, a landmark spiritual gathering bringing together Buddhist leaders, practitioners, and peace advocates from around the world from November 4–17, 2025. The festival will feature sacred rituals, a non-sectarian Global Peace Prayer, the mass recitation of Bazaguru, public blessings, and the Kalachakra Empowerment. We welcome spiritual leaders, scholars, and practitioners to join ...

A tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in Technical and Vocational Education and Training, with particular focus on Wood Engineering Technology between the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB); School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; and Centre for Sustainable Development and Cooperation (CDC), Switzerland, was signed ...

  The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Bilateral Consultations between the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) of the Swiss Confederation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & External Trade, Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB), was renewed on 8th January 2024 in Bern, Switzerland.The MoU was signed by Ambassador Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk, on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

Ambassador Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk presented his letters of credence to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon of Norway in Oslo today, accrediting him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the Kingdom of Norway.   During the credentials ceremony, Ambassador Wangchuk conveyed the warm greetings and good wishes of His Majesty The King of Bhutan to His ...

The Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan in Geneva, joined the nation in celebrating the 42th  Birth Anniversary of His Majesty The King on 21 February 2022 at the Ambassadors’ Residence. Bhutanese residing in Switzerland and friends of Bhutan in Switzerland attended the event. The celebration began with the offering of butter lamps and Zhabten for the continued well ...

The fourth bilateral consultation between Bhutan and Switzerland was held on 28 January 2022 in Bern, Switzerland. The Bhutanese delegation was led by Ambassador Pema Choden, Foreign Secretary and the Swiss delegation was led by Ambassador Raphael Nägeli, Assistant State Secretary for Asia and the Pacific, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. During the consultations, the two sides exchanged views on ...

                Ambassador Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk presented his credentials to H.E Mr. Alexander Van der Bellen, Federal President of the Republic Austria on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 accrediting him as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the Federal Republic of Austria. He conveyed to the President the warm greetings ...