22 U.S.C. § 6304 — Reporting on demarches
submitted 32 years ago by Pub. L. 103-236 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 155 words · no verdicts yet
Congress states that the State Department should include summaries of certain United States demarches in a required report. The section defines “demarche” and lists the concerns or requests it may express.
(1) Congress states that, when the State Department carries out its reporting duties under section 3282(c), it should include a summary of demarches the United States has sent or received from foreign governments about activities significant from a proliferation standpoint. (2) “Demarche” means an official written or oral communication from one government to another intended to express (A) concern about a past, current, or possible future action or activity of the recipient government, or someone under its jurisdiction, that contributes to the worldwide spread of nuclear material without safeguards or nuclear explosive devices; (B) a request that the recipient government stop or counter that action or activity; or (C) both that concern and that request.
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).
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 828(b), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 520.)
- 1994Enacted · Pub. L. 103-236 · 108 Stat. 520
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