Editing Foreign relations of Bhutan (section)

===Refugee resettlement===
{{Main article|Bhutanese refugees}}

The U.S. has offered to resettle 60,000 of the 107,000 [[Bhutanese refugees]] of Nepalese origin now living in seven U.N. refugee camps in southeastern Nepal. Six other nations—Australia, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, New Zealand and Denmark—have offered to resettle 10,000 each.<ref>{{cite web
  | title = First of 60,000 refugees from Bhutan arrive in U.S.
  | publisher = CNN
  | date = 25 March 2008
| url = http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/25/bhutan.refugees/
  | access-date = 6 September 2009}}</ref>

Other countries also operate resettlement programs in the camps.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,IRIN,,BTN,491946b81e,0.html |title=Nepal: Bhutanese refugees find new life beyond the camps |author=IRIN |date=10 November 2008 |work=UNHCR Refworld |access-date=26 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008021239/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher%2CIRIN%2C%2CBTN%2C491946b81e%2C0.html |archive-date=8 October 2012 }}</ref> Norway has already settled 200 Bhutanese refugees, and Canada has agreed to accept up to 5,000 through to 2012.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/refugees/outside/bhutanese.asp | title = Resettling Bhutanese Refugees – Update on Canada's Commitment | author = Government of Canada | date = 9 December 2008 | work = Citizenship and Immigration Canada | access-date = 26 April 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090321152644/http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLIsh/refugees/outside/bhutanese.asp | archive-date = 21 March 2009 | url-status = dead }}</ref>