---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6414"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6414"
heading: "High-level contacts with nongovernmental organizations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6414"
units:
  - "Chapter 73 — International Religious Freedom"
  - "Subchapter I — Department of State Activities"
---

# §6414. High-level contacts with nongovernmental organizations


United States chiefs of mission shall seek out and contact religious nongovernmental organizations to provide high-level meetings with religious nongovernmental organizations where appropriate and beneficial. United States chiefs of mission and Foreign Service officers abroad shall seek to meet with imprisoned religious leaders where appropriate and beneficial.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–292, title I, § 105, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2795.)