The Driglam Namzha story: Photo speaks

Bhutan's representative to the UN Lhatu Wangchuk waiting to enter UNGA hall in September 2011

Driglam Namzha is national etiquette which the rulers say, everyone in the country has to abide by. These photos vividly reflect that the policy was designed especially as an instrument to create psychological torture on Hindus to abandon their religion and culture.

Foreign Secretary Daw Penjo with Pm Thinley waiting on line to enter UN GA hall in September 2011
Daw Penjo (left), Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations, signs the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime. 09 December 2003
The delegation of the Kingdom of Bhutan at the sixtieth session of the General Assembly. The annual general debate of the United Nations General Assembly takes place over a 10-day period beginning on 17 September 2005, focusing on the follow-up to the World Summit. 23 September 2005
Om Pradhan (left), the new Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations, presenting his credentials to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim at UN Headquarters today. 08 February 1980
Yeshey Dorji, Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bhutan, addresses the thematic plenary meeting on "Financing the response to climate change - investing in tomorrow", at UN Headquarters in New York. 24 September 2007
Daw Penjo (left), Vice President of the General Assembly and Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations, addressing participants of the General Assembly high-level meeting on the Mid-term comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, at UN Headquarters in New York. 18 September 2006
Khandu Wangchuk, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, addresses the General Assembly high-level meeting on the Mid-term comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010, at UN Headquarters in New York. 18 September 2006
Khandu Wangchuk, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bhutan, addresses the general debate of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly, today at UN Headquarters. The general debate focuses on the follow-up to the 2005 World Summit. 23 September 2005
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser (left), President of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, meets with Lyonchoen Jigmi Yoezer Thinley, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan. 22 September 2011
Lhatu Wangchuk, Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations, introduces the draft resolution on the integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields (A/65/L.86). 19 July 2011
Daw Penjo, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations, addresses a high-level meeting on a comprehensive review of the progress achieved in realizing the Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS and the Political Declaration on the pandemic. 11 June 2008
Portrait of Mr. Jigmi Thinley, the new Permanent Representative of Bhutan to the United Nations. 12 October 1987
Also see similar photos that I posted earlier. This last photo is of course for compilation to my readers and see how present PM was when he started his real diplomatic career.
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