demarche
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- n a move or step or maneuver in political or diplomatic affairs
- The signing in Moscow's Kremlin on the night of August 23-24 of the Nazi-Communist "Non-Aggression" Pact was a diplomatic demarche literally world-shattering.
- Beijing may have thought it was making a clear diplomatic demarche.
- An urgent and serious demarche by the international community is most needed.