{"id":1935,"date":"2025-10-06T11:36:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:36:27","slug":"press-release-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/press-release-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of <\/b><b>Bhutan and the <\/b><b>Republic of the Philippines&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1927 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo1-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1926 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-2-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-2-1030x786.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-2-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-2-1536x1172.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Photo-2-2048x1563.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kingdom of Bhutan and the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republic of the Philippines<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, wishing to strengthen and develop mutually beneficial relations between their countries and peoples, have established diplomatic relations with effect from October 06, 2025.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Joint Communiqu\u00e9 on the establishment of diplomatic relations was signed between H.E. Maj. Gen. Vetsop Namgyel, Ambassador of Bhutan to India, and H.E. Mr.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Josel Francisco Ignacio<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ambassador of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Republic of the Philippines to India<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on behalf of their respective governments, on October 06, 2025, at the Royal Bhutanese Embassy, New Delhi.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the signing ceremony, the two Ambassadors expressed happiness at the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries that have enjoyed friendly relations and good cooperation over the years. They expressed confidence that the new milestone in the bilateral relations will provide good impetus for closer partnership and cooperation in areas of mutual interest between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Philippines is the 58th country with which Bhutan has established diplomatic relations.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of the Philippines&nbsp; The Kingdom of Bhutan and the Republic of the Philippines, wishing to strengthen and develop mutually beneficial relations between their countries and peoples, have established diplomatic relations with effect from October 06, 2025.&nbsp; The Joint Communiqu\u00e9 on the establishment of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbedelhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}