{"id":16,"date":"2016-11-24T04:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T04:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2021-08-25T12:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:42:18","slug":"about-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/about-us\/about-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Major General Vetsop Namgyel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pic-of-H.E..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pic-of-H.E.-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"pic-of-h-e\" width=\"336\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pic-of-H.E.-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pic-of-H.E.-200x227.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pic-of-H.E.-400x454.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/pic-of-H.E..jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassador Major General Vetsop Namgyel was born on 15<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> August 1952 in Pangbisa Village in the District of Paro, Bhutan.\u00a0 He completed his Senior Cambridge from St. Joseph\u2019s College, North Point, Darjeeling in West Bengal, India in 1969.\u00a0 After enrolling for a Degree Course in St. Joseph\u2019s College, North Point, he was called upon to join the Royal Bhutan Army and was commissioned from the Indian Military Academy in December 1972.\u00a0 He was selected for the Royal Body Guards in 1973 and was appointed as Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth King of Bhutan during the Royal Coronation in June 1974.\u00a0 Since then, he worked as a member of the Royal Secretariat as well as an officer of the Royal Body Guards.\u00a0 After his promotion to the Rank of Colonel in 1989, he functioned both as Military Secretary and Principal Aide-de-Camp to His Majesty the King.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major General Vetsop Namgyel has accompanied His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck on all His official and state visits to India from 1974 to 2006.\u00a0 He has also been a member of Bhutan\u2019s delegation to all the Summits of the Non Aligned Movement from 1976 to 1989 and the Summits of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation from 1985 to 1997.\u00a0 As a senior member of the Royal Secretariat, he worked closely with all the Secretaries and Ministers of the Royal Government of Bhutan, in particular with the ministries of Home and Foreign Affairs.\u00a0 In his capacity as Military Secretary, he coordinated all important security related activities and operations by the Royal Bhutan Army.\u00a0 He was awarded the highest military decoration, the Druk Yugyel Medal on 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> December 2004 and promoted to the Rank of Major General on 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> November 2005.\u00a0 He was conferred the prestigious national award, the Druk Thuksey Medal, on 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> December 2010 by His Majesty the King.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major General Vetsop Namgyel presented his credentials as Ambassador of Bhutan to India on 16 January 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Major General Vetsop Namgyel is married to Daw Zam and they have one son and two daughters. His favourite hobbies are reading, listening to music and playing golf.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Major General Vetsop Namgyel was born on 15th August 1952 in Pangbisa Village in the District of Paro, Bhutan.\u00a0 He completed his Senior Cambridge from St. Joseph\u2019s College, North Point, Darjeeling in West Bengal, India in 1969.\u00a0 After enrolling for a Degree Course in St. Joseph\u2019s College, North Point, he was called upon to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/1152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}