Press Releases

His Majesty The King will make a State Visit to Viet Nam from 18 to 22 August 2025 at the invitation of His Excellency Mr. Luong Cuong, President of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. During the historic, His Majesty The King will meet Party General Secretary To Lam, President ...

H.E. Lyonpo D. N. Dhungyel, Minister for Foreign Affairs and External Trade, led Bhutan’s delegation to the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) held in Awaza, Turkmenistan, from 4 to 8 August 2025. The once-in-a-decade conference, convened at the level of Heads of State and Government under ...

  The first bilateral consultation between Bhutan and Mongolia was held in Ulaanbaatar on 07 August 2025. The bilateral consultation were co-chaired by Foreign Secretary Pema Choden, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Bhutan, and State Secretary MUNKHTUSHIG Lkhanaajav of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia. Recalling ...

Dasho Karma Hamu Dorjee presented her Letter of Credence to H.E. Anura Kumara Disanayaka, Hon’ble President of Sri Lanka on 24 July 2025, as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Bhutan to Sri Lanka with residence in Dhaka. The presentation ceremony was held at the Presidential Secretariat ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade extends its warmest felicitations to Mr. Phub Dorji and Ms. Tshering Lhadn on receiving Dhar from His Majesty The King, appointing them as Bhutan’s new Ambassadors. Mr. Phub Dorji has been appointed as the Ambassador of Bhutan to the State of Kuwait, ...

The 20th Bhutan-Japan Annual Consultations on Economic Cooperation were held on 18 July 2025 in Thimphu. The consultations were co-chaired by Ms. Pema Tshomo, Director, Department of Bilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, and Ms. Kyoko Hokogu, Minister for Economic Cooperation, Embassy of Japan in New Delhi. ...

  The signing ceremony for the Project on Human Resource Development Scholarship between Bhutan and Japan was held today. The Exchange of Notes for the project was signed by Ms. Pema Tshomo, Director of the Department of Bilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade and H.E. Mr. Keiichi ...

            The GovTech Agency in close collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade hosted the inaugural workshop on “AI for Development” from 15 – 16 July 2025 in Thimphu. The workshop was organised in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ...

On 08 July 2025, Lyonpo D.N. Dhungyel, Minister for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade hosted a reception in commemoration of 40 years of diplomatic relations between Bhutan and Switzerland and to welcome H.E. Mr. Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, ...

Hon’ble Foreign Minister Lyonpo D.N Dhungyel met with H.E. Mr. Ignazio Cassis, Federal Councillor and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Swiss Confederation today and discussed the areas of mutual interest and cooperation. Federal Councillor Cassis is on an official visit to Bhutan from 08 to 09 July ...