{"id":1133,"date":"2024-10-29T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:11:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:11:13","slug":"press-release-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/press-release-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Subject: Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Kingdom of Lesotho.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">H.E. Mr. Pema Lektup Dorji, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations, and H.E. Mr. Matete Paul \u2018Nena, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United Nations signed the Joint Communiqu\u00e9 on the establishment of diplomatic relations on 29 October 2024, at the Permanent Mission of Bhutan in New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the signing ceremony, the two Ambassadors expressed happiness on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The two Ambassadors also emphasised the need to further enhance cooperation between the two countries both at the bilateral and multilateral level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Lesotho, Bhutan now has diplomatic relations with 56 countries and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1135 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1134 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Bhutan-Lesotho-signing-2-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject: Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Kingdom of Lesotho. H.E. Mr. Pema Lektup Dorji, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations, and H.E. Mr. Matete Paul \u2018Nena, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United Nations signed the Joint Communiqu\u00e9 on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/pmbny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}