Press Release

Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering attended the NASA Develop End-of-Summer Bhutan Presentation, held virtually on 12 August 2022. The Presentation was on the project, “Bhutan Agriculture II: Assessing and Developing Focal Crop Masks and Creating Data Collection Protocols using Remotely Sensed Data in Bhutan,” which was undertaken by four Bhutanese ...

Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering welcomed Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, the newly accredited Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations in New York. Ambassador Kamboj assumed her current post on 2 August 2022. Prior to this, Ambassador Kamboj served as the Ambassador of India to Bhutan, beginning in 2019.

Bhutan co-sponsored the Resolution A/RES/76/300 on “The human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment,” adopted by the United Nations General Assembly today. The Resolution was initiated by Costa Rica, the Maldives, Morocco, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering signed an MOU with the Under-Secretary General for United Nations Operational Support, Mr. Atul Khare, on Bhutan’s contribution to the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA). In keeping with His Majesty the King’s vision, this marks Bhutan’s first deployment of ...

The Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering met with Ms. Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, the Executive Secretary of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), a role she assumed since 13 September 2018. Ms. Alishjahbana and Ambassador Doma Tshering discussed Bhutan’s ...

H.E. Ambassador Doma Tshering, Ambassador and Permanent Representative and Mr. Jigme Norbu, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations attended the Fortieth Assembly of Parties (AP-40) of International Telecommunication and Satellite Organization (ITSO) from 28-30 June 2022 in Washington DC.

  24 June 2022 marks the first International Day of Women in Diplomacy.  On this day, the Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan pays tribute to pioneers. Ashi Tashi Dorji led Bhutan’s delegation to the Colombo Plan in 1962, securing Bhutan’s first membership in an Intergovernmental Organisation.

The Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan extends warmest congratulations to India and all yoga practitioners on the event of the eighth International Day of Yoga. The commemoration celebration of the 8th International Day of Yoga was held at the UN Headquarters in New York on 20 June 2022. ...

The Royal Bhutanese Embassy to Canada is pleased to announce the establishment of the King‘s Scholarships of Bhutan at the University of Toronto. For more details, click here

Permanent Representative Ambassador Doma Tshering  participated in the Fourth Meeting of the Board of Advisers of the President of the General Assembly (PGA) on the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (LLS). The discussions were held on “Responding to the Need of our Planet,” one ...