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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 239 July 24, 1987

REORGANIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

WHEREAS, under Article II, Section 1, of the Provisional Constitution, as adopted in Proclamation No. 3 dated March 25, 1986, the President shall give priority to measures to achieve the mandate of the people to completely reorganize the government;

WHEREAS, Article XVIII, Section 16, of the 1987 Constitution recognizes that the reorganization of the government shall be continued even after the ratification of the Constitution;

WHEREAS, under Article XVIII, Section 6, of the 1987 Constitution, the President shall continue to exercise legislative powers until the First Congress is convened;

WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 132 entitled Reorganizing the Department of Foreign Affairs was signed by the President of February 27, 1987;

WHEREAS, the implementation thereof was suspended;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby order:

(Sections 1 to 32)

Sec. 33. Effectivity. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

APPROVED in the City of Manila, Philippines, this 24th day of July, in the Year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-seven.

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