Mission: To promote and protect Malawi’s interest and maintain good international relations through implementation of its foreign policy, in order to contribute to sustainable development and territorial integrity

Mandate: To provide policy guidance and advice on all matters on the engagements between Malawi and the international community

Vision: A high quality diplomatic service that promotes and protects Malawi’s interests and image

Core Values: Professionalism, Transparency, Accountability, Patriotism, Confidentiality, Integrity, Teamwork, Innovativeness, and Courtesy

Strategic Objectives    

• Promote development diplomacy as a fundamental tool of the country's foreign policy;
• Provide State and Government Protocol Services
• Protect Malawi’s sovereignty and territorial integrity;
• Promote international/regional peace and security as well as good neighborliness;
• Adopt and promote a pragmatic and independent stance in global affairs commensurate with Malawi’s National Interest;
• Advance socio-economic development of Malawi;
• Promote bilateral, regional and multilateral cooperation;
• Promote engagement with Malawians in the Diaspora;
• Project Malawi’s positive and progressive image globally;