**Executive Summary**
The Prime Minister's Office released a report on February 18, 2026, detailing the meeting between the Prime Minister of India and the Prime Minister of Bhutan, Tshering Tobgay, who is visiting India to attend the India-AI Impact Summit 2026. The leaders discussed progress in various areas of cooperation and reaffirmed their commitment to advance cooperation in energy, connectivity, and development partnership. Both countries agreed to strengthen cooperation in AI and digital technology.
**Key Points / Main Content**
* **Areas of Discussion and Cooperation**
* Review of progress in diverse areas of cooperation based on the outcomes of Prime Minister Modi's visit to Bhutan in November 2025.
* Bhutan's Prime Minister Tobgay thanked India for its support to Bhutan's 13th Five Year Plan and the Gelephu Mindfulness City Project.
* Reaffirmation of commitment to advance cooperation in energy, connectivity, and development partnership.
* **AI and Digital Technology**
* Agreement to strengthen cooperation in AI and digital technology space through mutual sharing of experience and expertise.
* Joint development of AI solutions for growth and prosperity.
* Discussion on harnessing the power of AI for global good and harmony with principles of sustainability.
* **India-Bhutan Relations**
* Maintenance of unique ties of friendship and cooperation, based on trust, goodwill, and understanding.
* Continuation of regular high-level exchanges between India and Bhutan.
**Impact Analysis**
**Stakeholder:** Prime Minister of India
**Impact:** Strengthened diplomatic ties and collaboration with Bhutan.
**Action Required:** Continue fostering cooperation in key areas like energy, connectivity, development, and AI.
**Stakeholder:** Prime Minister of Bhutan
**Impact:** Receiving support from India for Bhutan's development plans and AI initiatives.
**Action Required:** Continue collaboration with India to advance mutual interests and development goals.
**Stakeholder:** India and Bhutan
**Impact:** Deeper cooperation and enhanced relations between the two countries.
**Action Required:** Implement joint projects and initiatives in energy, connectivity, development, and AI.
**Stakeholder:** Citizens of India and Bhutan
**Impact:** Benefit from enhanced cooperation and development in areas of energy, connectivity, and technology.
**Action Required:** None.
Key Entities Referenced
Tshering Tobgay: Prime Minister of Bhutan
India-AI Impact Summit 2026: Summit focused on AI's impact
Gelephu Mindfulness City Project: Bhutan's Project supported by India
Bhutan's 13th Five Year Plan: Bhutan's economic plan supported by India
India: Country involved in bilateral discussions and cooperation
Prime Minister's Office
Prime Minister's meeting with the Prime Minister
of Bhutan
Posted On: 18 FEB 2026 7:12PM by PIB Delhi
Prime Minister met with Prime Minister of Bhutan His Excellency Tshering Tobgay who is visiting India
to attend the India-AI Impact Summit 2026.
During the meeting, both leaders reviewed the progress in diverse areas of cooperation building on the
outcomes of the highly successful visit of Prime Minister Modi to Bhutan in November 2025. Prime
Minister Tobgay thanked Prime Minister Modi for India’s support to Bhutan’s 13th Five Year Plan as well
as the Gelephu Mindfulness City Project. The Prime Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to advance
cooperation in priority areas of energy, connectivity and development partnership.
In keeping with the high emphasis placed on harnessing new technologies for growth and prosperity by
both India and Bhutan, the Prime Ministers agreed to strengthen cooperation in AI and digital technology
space through mutual sharing of experience and expertise as well as joint development of AI solutions.
India and Bhutan enjoy unique ties of friendship and cooperation, based on trust, goodwill and
understanding. The visit of Prime Minister of Bhutan is in keeping with the tradition of regular high-level
exchanges between India and Bhutan..
In separate posts on X, Shri Modi wrote:
"The meeting with PM Tshering Tobgay was outstanding. We discussed how we can harness the power of
AI for global good and in harmony with principles of sustainability.
Our enduring India-Bhutan friendship, rooted in mutual trust, goodwill and close ties between our two
peoples, continues to guide our partnership into new and transformative domains.
@tsheringtobgay"
The meeting with PM Tshering Tobgay was outstanding. We discussed how we
can harness the power of AI for global good and in harmony with principles of
sustainability.
Our enduring India-Bhutan friendship, rooted in mutual trust, goodwill and close
ties between our two peoples,… pic.twitter.com/oWBUXmR7EW
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 18, 2026"
ོན་ཆེན་ཚ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ཕྱད་མི་འདི་ མཆོག་ཏུ་གྱུར་པ་ཅིག་ཨིན་མས། ང་བཅས་ིས་ ཡུན་བརྟན་གཞི་རྩ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཞི་བདེ་དང་
ལྡནམ་ེ་རྒྱལ་ིའི་ཁེ་ཕན་ི་དོན་ལུ་བཅོས་རིག་གི་ནུས་པ་འདི་ག་དེ་ེ་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་ན་ོས་བསྡུར་འབད་ཡི།
རྒྱ་གར་དང་འབྲུག་གི་བར་ན་ མཐུན་ལམ་ཡུན་བརྟན་ེ་གནས་མི་དང་ ཕན་ཚུན་ི་ོ་གཏད་དང་ མཐུན་ལམ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ དེ་ལས་ མི་སེར་གཉིས་ི་བར་ན་
མཐུན་ལམ་དམ་ཟབ་ེ་ཡོད་མི་གིས་ང་བཅས་རའི་མཉམ་འེལ་འདི་གནས་སྟངས་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་འགྱུར་ཚུགས་པའི་ལམ་སྟོན་འབད་དེ་ར་ཡོད།
@tsheringtobgay"
ོན་ཆེན་ཚ་རིང་ོབས་རྒྱས་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ཕྱད་མི་འདི་ མཆོག་ཏུ་གྱུར་པ་ཅིག་ཨིན་མས། ང་བཅས་ིས་ ཡུན་བརྟན་གཞི་རྩ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཞི་
བདེ་དང་ལྡནམ་ེ་ རྒྱལ་ིའི་ཁེ་ཕན་ི་དོན་ལུ་ བཅོས་རིག་གི་ནུས་པ་འདི་ ག་དེ་ེ་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་ན་ ོས་བསྡུར་འབད་ཡི།
… pic.twitter.com/aQX0Fzynbt
རྒྱ་གར་དང་འབྲུག་གི་བར་ན་
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 18, 2026
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