Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(Bhutan) Knowpia

Kingdom of Bhutan དཔལ་ལྡན་འབྲུག་གཞུང་།
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade ཕྱི་འབྲལ་དང་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལྷན་ཁག།
Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of Bhutan
Agency executives	Tandi Dorji, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Pema Choden, Foreign Secretary;
Website	www.mfa.gov.bt

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade (ཕྱི་འབྲལ་དང་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་ལྷན་ཁག) is the Bhutanese government ministry which oversees the foreign relations of Bhutan. The Royal Government of Bhutan established the Development Ministry in 1968, which was a precursor to the institution of the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1970 and subsequent up gradation to a full-fledged ministry in 1972.

Bhutan has established diplomatic relations with 52 countries and the European Union.

Departments edit

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for:

Department of Bilateral Affairs
Department of Multilateral Affairs
Department of Protocol

List of ministers edit

This is a list of ministers of foreign affairs of Bhutan:^[1]

No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Tenure
1	Dawa Tsering (1935–2007)	1972–1998
2	Jigme Thinley (b. 1952)	1998–2003
3	Khandu Wangchuk (b. 1950)	2003–2007
—	Yeshey Dorji Acting Minister	2007–2008
4	Ugyen Tshering (b. 1954)	2008–2013
5	Rinzin Dorji (b. 1964)	2013–2015
6	Damcho Dorji (b. 1965)	2015–2018
—	Tshering Wangchuk Advisor	2018
7	Tandi Dorji (b. 1968)	2018–present