Aide Memoire

Aide Memoire and the GATT Policy Negotiations

In relation to the GATT Policy Negotiations, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following explanation and/or definition of Aide Memoire: In diplomatic parlance, refers to a written outline or summary of the main points of a proposed agreement.

Aide-mémoire

In diplomatic practice, a summary of a conversation, 'often a detailed statement

of facts, and of arguments based thereon, not differing essentially from a Note, except

that it does not begin and end with a formula of courtesy and need not be signed': Satow 's

Guide to Diplomatic Practice (5th ed.), 45.

Resources

Further Reading

• The entry “aide-mémoire” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press