Objectives.
Section 2
SEC. 2. Objectives.—The Congress hereby declares that the objectives of this Act are to reorganize and strengthen the Foreign Service of the Philippines so as: To enable the Foreign Service effectively to serve abroad the interests of the Republic of the Philippines; To insure that the officers and employees of the Foreign Service are broadly representative of the Filipino people and are aware of and fully informed in respect of current trends in Philippine life; To provide improvements in the selection and training of personnel to insure that only competent persons of good moral character are recruited into the service; To provide that promotions in the service shall be on the basis of merit; To provide guarantees that career personnel of the service shall be permanent and secure in their positions during good behavior and satisfactory performance of duty; To provide salaries, allowances, and benefits that will permit the service to draw its personnel from all walks of Philippine life and to appoint persons to the highest positions in the service solely on the basis of their demonstrated ability; To provide a flexible and comprehensive framework for the direction of the Foreign Service in accordance with modern practices in public administration; and To codify into one Act all provisions of law relating to the administration of the Foreign Service.