{"id":270,"date":"2021-12-06T15:55:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/?page_id=270"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:55:38","slug":"friendship-associations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/friendship-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are a total of 16 Friendship Associations in 11 European countries <\/span><b>(<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Country<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Association<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Croatia<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friendship Association Croatia Bhutan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Czech Republic\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends of Bhutan Society of the Czech Republic<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Czech Republic<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Czech&#8217;n&#8217;Bhutan Cultural Friendship Association<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Denmark<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danish-Bhutanese Friendship Association<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finland<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finland-Bhutan Society<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">France<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les Amis du Bhoutan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">German-Bhutan Himalaya Society<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pro Bhutan Association e.V<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhutan Help Society<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greece<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greece-Bhutan Friendship Association<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungary<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungarian Bhutan Friendship Society<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Italy\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amici del Bhutan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Netherlands\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friends of Bhutan<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sweden<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swedish Bhutan Society<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bhutan Society of the UK<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to providing public outreach and awareness about Bhutan in their own countries and raising funds and supporting projects in Bhutan, the Friendship Associations are helpful for visiting Bhutanese or students. The Friendship Associations organize biennial meetings amongst themselves, hosted by one of the societies. The European Bhutan Friendship Association made a joint visit to Bhutan in November 2012 and November 2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a total of 16 Friendship Associations in 11 European countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom):\u00a0 Country Association Croatia Friendship Association Croatia Bhutan Czech Republic\u00a0 Friends of Bhutan Society of the Czech Republic Czech Republic Czech&#8217;n&#8217;Bhutan Cultural Friendship Association Denmark Danish-Bhutanese Friendship Association Finland &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbebrussels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}