FOREIGN SERVICE PROMOTION PANELS.

SEC. 163. FOREIGN SERVICE PROMOTION PANELS. It is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest extent possible, Foreign Service promotion panels should— (1) only promote candidates to the Senior Foreign Service who have demonstrated foreign language proficiency in at least one language at the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level, as defined by the Foreign Service Institute; (2) strive for the objective stipulated in the Foreign Service Manual “to be able to use two foreign languages at a minimum professional level of proficiency of S-3/R-3, which is the general professional speaking proficiency level”; and (3) have at least one person on each Foreign Service promotion panel who has attained at least the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level in one language level.