Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 72 — Nuclear Proliferation Prevention
§ 6304. Reporting on demarches
Statutory text
It is the sense of the Congress that the Department of State should, in the course of implementing its reporting responsibilities under section 3282(c) of this title, include a summary of demarches that the United States has issued or received from foreign governments with respect to activities which are of significance from the proliferation standpoint.
For purposes of this section, the term “demarche” means any official communication by one government to another, by written or oral means, intended by the originating government to express—
a concern over a past, present, or possible future action or activity of the recipient government, or of a person within the jurisdiction of that government, contributing to the global spread of unsafeguarded special nuclear material or of nuclear explosive devices;
a request for the recipient government to counter such action or activity; or
both the concern and request described in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–236 title VIII § 828(b) · 108 Stat. 382
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 6304
(Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 828(b), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 520.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 828(b), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 520.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Reporting on Demarches.— (1) It is the sense of the Congress that the Department of State should, in the course of implementing its reporting responsibilities under section 602(c) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, include a summary of demarches that the United States has issued or received from foreign governments with respect to activities which are of significance from the proliferation standpoint. (2) For purposes of this section, the term “demarche” means any official communication by one government to another, by written or oral means, intended by the originating government to express— (A) a concern over a past, present, or possible future action or activity of the recipient government, or of a person within the jurisdiction of that government, contributing to the global spread of unsafeguarded special nuclear material or of nuclear explosive devices; (B) a request for the recipient government to counter such action or activity; or (C) both the concern and request described in subparagraphs (A) and (B).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective 60 days after , see section 831 of Pub. L. 103–236, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.