---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6304"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6304"
heading: "Reporting on demarches"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6304"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Nuclear Proliferation Prevention"
  - "Subchapter I — Sanctions for Nuclear Proliferation"
---

# §6304. 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 3282(c) of this title](/usc/22/3282.md?p=c), 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](/usc/22/6305.md?p=8) or of [nuclear explosive devices](/usc/22/6305.md?p=4);
  - (B) a request for the recipient government to counter such action or activity; or
  - (C) both the concern and request described in subparagraphs [(A)](#2-A) and [(B)](#2-B).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 828(b), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 520.)

## 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.