---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6302"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6302"
heading: "Role of international financial institutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6302"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Nuclear Proliferation Prevention"
  - "Subchapter I — Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation"
---

# §6302. Role of international financial institutions


The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director to each of the international financial institutions described in [section 262d(a) of this title](/usc/22/262d.md?p=a) to use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose any use of the institution’s funds to promote the acquisition of [unsafeguarded special nuclear material](/usc/22/6305.md?p=8) or the development, stockpiling, or use of any [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/6305.md?p=4) by any [non-nuclear-weapon state](/usc/22/6305.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 823(a), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 512.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 60 days after Apr. 30, 1994, see section 831 of Pub. L. 103–236, set out as a note under section 6301 of this title.