{"id":1031,"date":"2022-01-31T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:24:10","slug":"1031-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/1031-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The fourth bilateral consultation between Bhutan and Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1032 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-1536x1114.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SB-2048x1485.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fourth bilateral consultation between Bhutan and Switzerland was held on 28 January 2022 in Bern, Switzerland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bhutanese delegation was led by Ambassador Pema Choden, Foreign Secretary and the Swiss delegation was led by Ambassador Raphael N\u00e4geli, Assistant State Secretary for Asia and the Pacific, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the consultations, the two sides exchanged views on the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic, recent political developments in Bhutan and Switzerland and reviewed the state of bilateral relations between the two countries including at multilateral fora.\u00a0 Both sides agreed to further deepen cooperation between the two countries especially in the area of trade, investment, technical and higher education and at multilateral fora.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formal diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Switzerland was established on 16 September 1985.\u00a0 However, Bhutan\u2019s relationship with Switzerland dates back to the close personal friendship between His late Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and the Von Schulthess family in the 1950s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 N\u00e4geli, Assistant State Secretary for Asia and the Pacific, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. During the consultations, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}